Example sentences of "believe to have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great white shark , believed to have killed a 31-year-old scuba diver on his honeymoon in Australia , was spotted today . |
| 2 | Bibit and four companions were assisted in their escape by 15 soldiers from the Young Officers ' Union , a shadowy , dissident group within the armed forces which was believed to have played a leading role in organizing the coup attempt . |
| 3 | Ann Pattinson , 15 , of Daddryshield , Weardale , is believed to have suffered a broken leg and minor head injuries . |
| 4 | The condition of the 60 year-old actress , who is believed to have suffered a severe asthma attack , worsened since yesterday . |
| 5 | The arrests were widely believed to have inflicted a serious blow to the organization 's command structure and its ability to continue with its 22-year guerrilla war . |
| 6 | The conviction of Nicholas L. Bianco , along with that of seven of his subordinates , was believed to have inflicted a severe blow to a family which was believed to have engaged in organized crime in Rhode Island , Massachusetts and Connecticut since the 1940s . |
| 7 | Her sister , Lady Jane Fellowes , is believed to have made an early morning visit to Kensington Palace to offer support , but the Princess kept her distress private . |
| 8 | Thus , orbital variations are believed to have caused the cyclic glaciations of the past 700,000 yr ( the Milankovitch hypothesis ) . |
| 9 | When it did , the 13 are believed to have netted a total profit of more than ¥250m ( $2m ) . |
| 10 | The MoD is believed to have struck a hard bargain — at somewhere between £120 million and £130 million a ship — with Swan Hunter winning the work against ‘ keen and commercial ’ competition from Yarrows on Clydeside and Cammell Laird on Merseyside . |
| 11 | In 1991 , the brothers are believed to have inherited an estimated £500,000 when a Jersey court ruled that after three years the missing couple could be presumed dead . |
| 12 | The robber , aged about 20 and wearing a green hat , escaped in a G-registered burgundy-coloured Vauxhall Cavalier and is believed to have had a trilby-hatted accomplice in the car . |
| 13 | The Labour leader , John Smith , is believed to have told the Scottish leadership not to support any efforts to set up a Scottish parliamentary council and Mr Clarke 's proposals are intended to maintain Lib Dem support for the convention . |
| 14 | He is believed to have taken the full force of the blast , on October 24 , 1990 , and died instantly . |
| 15 | Finally , we must be concerned by the fact that in at least one school ( see Chapter 5 ) the senior member of staff whose demand for IS resources was widely believed to have instigated the original project initiative could not himself describe how he used the project acquisitions in his own work . |