Example sentences of "it [be] believed that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia .
2 It is believed that many dischargers , particularly industrialists , have such control over their manufacturing and treatment processes that they are able to alter the quality and quantity of their effluents virtually at will , as economic considerations dictate .
3 It is believed that these clothes have been taken to Malta for comparison with items purchased there which were found in the suitcase containing the bomb .
4 It is believed that some vines can live as long as five hundred years although such a plant would yield a negligible crop of grapes .
5 It is believed that this surname is used by her mother to divert attention from her .
6 It is believed that this incident may be connected with the riots yesterday in Deptford . ’
7 When ice melts it is believed that this structure is largely maintained but that the spaces become partly filled , possibly by unbonded water molecules which are small enough to fit inside them , or are reduced in size by bending and reorganization of the hydrogen bonds .
8 In 1972 the number of houses used as second homes in Britain as a whole was estimated at 372000 , but it is believed that this number has declined in recent years due to the inflation in house prices since that date .
9 One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science .
10 It is believed that this force is carried by another spin-I particle , called the gluon , which interacts only with itself and with the quarks .
11 It was believed that such measures would stimulate industry and increase employment in the short-term until Britain 's economic markets were restored by the revival of world trade and increasing cost-effective output :
12 It was believed that this intervention would be aided if the state had control of certain key industries ( eg coal , railways , gas , electricity distribution ) , which were crucial to post-war economic recovery and which were in such a rundown state that it was unlikely that sufficient private capital would materialise to rejuvenate them .
13 It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space .
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