Example sentences of "believed [prep] be the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This house and Palazzo Durini ( see page 126 ) are believed to be the first two town houses to have been built in the city after the population had been decimated by plague in 1630 , when , it was thought , as many as 70,000 Milanese died .
2 BDO Seidman has won what is believed to be the first successful countersuit by an auditor against a former client .
3 Indeed the Post Office is believed to be the first major organisation to provide the details by the direct method .
4 A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years .
5 The stations , designed by British scientists , are believed to be the first satellite-linked automatic weather stations .
6 An operation by Turkey to divert the flow of the Euphrates river away from Syria and Iraq in order to fill the reservoir behind the newly constructed Ataturk dam ( believed to be the fifth largest in the world ) was begun on Jan. 13 in a ceremony presided over by the Turkish President , Turgut Özal .
7 It is believed to be the last living relic of the days when these islands were joined to Europe and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine , where the same species of snail is still found .
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