Example sentences of "believe that [pron] was [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The ostrich dug his head in and believed that there was nobody out there who could notice — and if they did , what did it matter ?
2 Br. , 1991 , 27 , 821 ) , and believed that there was something important for us there .
3 In 1872 the Catholic Archbishop Cardinal Manning announced that the majority of clerics now believed that there was nothing incompatible between evolutionary science and their own theological system .
4 By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case .
5 From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth .
6 Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony .
7 Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations .
8 They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general .
9 He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor .
10 This led Popper to believe that there was something fallacious in the proofs , thought adequate for ascertaining truth .
11 Easier to believe that it was hers , and there was something wrong with it .
12 Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland .
13 She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident .
14 She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident .
15 Hardy firmly believed that it was his duty to face up to the unpleasant aspects of life , if by so doing he could show sympathy with his fellow man and , perhaps , after all , offer hope for improvement in the future .
16 To assert that the knave of hearts was the person who stole the tarts is not to assert that one believes that it was he who stole them .
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