Example sentences of "believe [pos pn] [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second group believed their families to be highly supportive of their official careers in school . |
| 2 | The Jewish–Christian tradition identified the gods of polytheism with subordinates of the devil , malevolent spirits entrapping their worshippers , impelling them to worship the created order ( hence the images in temples where polytheists believed their gods to be resident ) rather than the Creator . |
| 3 | It was what people believed their interests to be , not what they actually were , that determined their actions . |
| 4 | Clara , already familiar with children of famous parents , and with children who believed their parents to be famous , could not believe that Clelia 's assumption was ill-founded , yet she could not even locate the field of Mrs Denham 's distinction . |
| 5 | Apart from the fact that she believed her teeth to be on the point of falling out , she had not had her period for several weeks and was afraid that she was barren . |
| 6 | Political correspondents were told initially that the Prime Minister believed his activities to be ‘ unorthodox but in order ’ . |
| 7 | Marx described the consciousness of people in a situation of class conflict as ideological , meaning that although they might represent and believe their ideas to be objective and of universal validity , in reality these ideas express and serve class interests . |
| 8 | Our research was conducted before the Children Act , but little in the legislation makes us believe our findings to be significantly out of date . |
| 9 | They also believe their reviews to be less thorough than their female colleagues and believe more strongly that reviews require more help and advice from outsiders . |
| 10 | It was widely assumed that the assailants had mistakenly believed their victims to be of Korean extraction , and that the assault was connected to a black boycott of two Korean-American grocery shops in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn . |
| 11 | He believes its provisions to be socialistic and that they would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs in Britain while hampering enterprise in industry and small businesses . |