Example sentences of "believe [verb] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man , suffering from a leg injury believed to have been caused by the fall , was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 2 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 3 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 4 | The meeting , believed to have been suggested by the Soviet Union , is the first such encounter since 1971 . |
| 5 | Firemen were called to extinguish the blaze , believed to have been started by a faulty electric blanket . |
| 6 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 7 | The unrest , which was connected with further proposed petrol price and bus fare increases and also involved student protests , was believed to have been caused by a Supreme Court decision not to proceed with corruption charges against various former ministers . |
| 8 | The erosion is believed to have been caused by a combination of : i ) the relative rise in sea level brought about by the slow sinking of southeastern England ; ii ) an actual rise in sea level locally since the 1970s ; and iii ) the reduction of saltmarshes due to human-made sea defences . |
| 9 | The onion-domed towers are believed to have been inspired by a visit to Jerusalem by the designer Jörg von Halspach , but were not added until 1525 . |
| 10 | The surprise move is believed to have been precipitated by the privately held company 's unprofitable year-end results tallied as of March 31 . |
| 11 | For example , the giant trace Climactichnites from the Upper Cambrian of North America is believed to have been constructed by an otherwise unknown Metazoan of novel appearance . |
| 12 | Although it was officially denied , commentators suggested that the decision had been taken in order to settle the lingering controversy surrounding the referendum of 1946 , widely believed to have been rigged by the communists , whereby the monarchy had been abolished . |
| 13 | The judge rejected a claim for compensation for psychological damage by a mother and her daughter , who was believed to have been abused by the mother 's boyfriend . |
| 14 | Valente and Houtekens , along with six relatives , were originally believed to have been seized by the FRC while sailing off the coast of Lebanon in November 1987 . |
| 15 | Lady Richelda is believed to have been told by the Virgin Mary to build a replica of her house in Nazareth . |
| 16 | With the release of Buckley 's remains the bodies of only two Western hostages remained unaccounted for , Michel Seurat ( France ) who had died of cancer during captivity , and Alec Collett ( UK ) who was believed to have been executed by the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Moslems in reprisal for the US bombing raid on Libya in April 1986 . |
| 17 | About 1,300 haemophiliacs were believed to have been infected by the HIV virus from transfusions of contaminated blood in 1985 . |
| 18 | The fires are believed to have been triggered by the annual practice among peasant farmers of burning off land prior to the wet season . |
| 19 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |