Example sentences of "be believed that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon . |
2 | Before the dropping of the atomic bombs , the Americans had feared that the Russians would not honour their pledge to join the war against the Japanese , and it is believed that the Allied forces were held back in Europe , so that the Russian troops could advance through the eastern part of Europe into Czechoslovakia . |
3 | It is believed that the above initiatives could generate a 2.5% reduction in casualties by the year 2000 within this age group . |
4 | The timing of such an arrangement would be crucial if adverse American reaction was to be avoided ; it was believed that the first approaches should be to the Dominions , followed by the USA , USSR , and China , culminating in a full international conference . |
5 | Campaigners against the regulations were working to undermine the time-honoured alliance between medicine and morality but the healer who deployed his art ‘ honourably and fully ’ could never be in antagonism with divine law.It was believed that the curative functions of medicine provided their own moral guarantee . |