Example sentences of "believe that it was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Easier to believe that it was hers , and there was something wrong with it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 9 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |