Example sentences of "believe [conj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence . |
| 2 | The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success . |
| 3 | Colonel Fagg obviously believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 4 | The complicated narrative of the emancipation can not be reduced to the proposition that Alexander sensed he was facing a crisis and believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 5 | A firm advocate of temperance , she believed that drink was the cause of much of the crime , vice , and misery of the poor . |
| 6 | Leese believed that race was the factor which determined history and cultural achievement and that different types of men had fixed and immutable types of character and personality , exactly as with dogs . |
| 7 | Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling . |
| 8 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 9 | However , this was not due to any genuine belief in pacifism ; Franco , after all , believed that war was the normal human condition . |
| 10 | During a three-week sentencing hearing in late September and early October , however , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , of the US Federal District Court of Atlanta , declared that he did not believe that Drogoul was the sole orchestrator of the Iraqi loans , and alluded to Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documents which proved " definitely " that Drogoul had acted with the full knowledge of BNL 's head office in Rome . |
| 11 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |