Example sentences of "believe have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refusal to talk , believed to have been decided in a meeting of the Politburo , contributed to renewed speculation here that Mr Honecker may no longer be in full control . |
| 2 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 3 | Firemen were called to extinguish the blaze , believed to have been started by a faulty electric blanket . |
| 4 | Britain was a different world , groggy and cynical after years during which the government was betrayed by a left-dominated trade union movement which it mistakenly believed had been tamed under a ‘ social contract ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was widely believed to have been interned in a labour camp in the mid-1930s ( a fate shared by the greater part of the clergy ) , and again for a year immediately after the Second World War , following military service . |
| 9 | Their backpacks are believed to have been seen on a dump . |
| 10 | They are believed to have been caught in a storm without enough food or water . |