Example sentences of "believed that the [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was believed that the principal rumour-monger was poor George Brown . |
| 2 | Before the dropping of the atomic bombs , the Americans had feared that the Russians would not honour their pledge to join the war against the Japanese , and it is believed that the Allied forces were held back in Europe , so that the Russian troops could advance through the eastern part of Europe into Czechoslovakia . |
| 3 | Originally it was believed that the preferred hand was a reliable indicator of the speech-dominant hemisphere . |
| 4 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
| 5 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 6 | Isolated PHB is highly crystalline , and it was originally believed that the native granules were also crystalline . |
| 7 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |