Example sentences of "be believe that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously .
2 Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes .
3 My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about .
4 The police investigation is continuing , but it is believed that two plastic barrels containing some 300 lb of home-made explosive were placed beside the roadside hedge and detonated by command wire from a vantage point overlooking the scene .
5 It is believed that all but two committees have carried out some form of investigation based on information provided in the 1991 series of reports .
6 It was directed at ministers and social workers , and it is believed that one Orkney social worker was invited to that seminar , as well as a Baptist minister who had helped to organise the summer camp on Rousay .
7 It is believed that one of them moved the regulator and opened it up with the result that the train was soon out of control .
8 It is believed that substantial numbers of ‘ additional ’ known drug users may have been ‘ missed ’ only in the case of GPs ( to whom 124 problem drug users were known exclusively in the first survey ) .
9 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 .
10 It is believed that each of the twenty amino acids is represented in DNA code by a particular sequence of three bases .
11 ( b ) alternative , as in the cases of the provision of alternative facilities for the production , exhibition or publication of certain kinds of work , where it is believed that existing institutions exclude or tend to exclude these ;
12 It is believed that similar reserves exist along the coast .
13 But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) .
14 Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them .
15 However , it is believed that due to remarks made about ‘ A ’ Flight 's flying capabilities in the Officers ' Mess on the night before the Air Officer Commanding 's ( AOC 'd ) Annual Inspection , this happened the next day .
16 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 .
17 And it is believed that more than two-thirds of the entire population of seven million needs food desperately .
18 Other factors which influence the perception of risk include the degree of trust in the organisation ; familiarity and understanding of the technology ; the extent of involvement in the decision making process ; whether it is believed that more could be done to reduce risk ; comparisons with accepted risks ; and — last but not least — the fairness in the distribution of the risks and benefits .
19 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 .
20 Of course it is believed that some will give way to others .
21 In the city of Rome it is believed that some 40,000 insulae lined the streets and squares .
22 It is believed that 53 was renumbered 17 and 52 remained as an addition to the fleet .
23 It is believed that 96 followers of Koresh , including 17 children , remain inside the compound .
24 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 .
25 It is believed that these blotched tabbies arose first in Britain , in the Elizabethan era .
26 No Monday last , when the designs were first displayed to the public , it is believed that 10,000 persons visited the exhibition ; on Tuesday , when the crowd was somewhat less , 7,000 were present ; and on Wednesday the numbers again reached to 10,000 .
27 It is believed that endogenous antigens are generally degraded in the cytosol , the resulting peptides being translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum where they bind to MHC class I molecules .
28 With such large corpora it is believed that improved language models may be created .
29 But it is believed that several dozen members of the last Parliament are still members .
30 It is believed that this giant carp is still within the lake , and will not be caught until Frederick reigns again .
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