United led after three minutes as Nani drilled home inside the near post after turning George Elokobi inside-out.

a far cry taller

Of course, the problem applies not only to belief, but also to a host of other mental phenomena which may be called propositional attitudes: doubting, considering, desiring, etc. In all these cases it seems natural to express the phenomenon in the form A doubts p, A desires p, etc., which makes it appear as though we were dealing with a relation between a person and a proposition.

She was relieved he hadn't taken the bridge, which stretched for eons across the swamps of Louisiana, and housed little in the way of civvies save for National Guardsmen in training or the occasional jugswilling hillbilly (aka swampbilly).