Example sentences of "be believed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It is believed that this incident may be connected with the riots yesterday in Deptford . ’ |
| 34 | It is believed that this surname is used by her mother to divert attention from her . |
| 35 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 36 | One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science . |
| 37 | Even though these kinds of ’ fishing raids ’ take place in such factories at this time of the year , it is believed that this particular raid has marked the beginning of a new home office policy . |
| 38 | It is believed that this was Hadrian 's retreat , where he went to be quiet and enjoy his drawing , writing and music-making . |
| 39 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
| 40 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
| 41 | The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession . |
| 42 | It is believed that intensive enforcement of drink driving legislation acts as a highly effective preventive measure and that the scope for further casualty reductions in drink related accidents is 10% . |
| 43 | 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 : |
| 44 | Soon afterwards it was believed that such a planet had been discovered in transit across the Sun . |
| 45 | It was believed that Western military preponderance throughout most of Asia and Africa had been undercut by the balancing effect of the Soviet Union , which made formal American military alignment with Third World states both more hazardous and anachronistic . |
| 46 | The six months ' stock of parts was exhausted and it was believed that 10 to 15 per cent of the weapons and between 30 and 35 per cent of vehicles were unserviceable . |
| 47 | In Victorian England unpleasant odours were synonymous with disease and it was believed that pleasant odours could neutralize them . |
| 48 | At this time , it was believed that female genitalia were merely internal versions of the male , with the clitoris being a tiny penis , and it was the greater heat of the male that had expelled his organs . |
| 49 | It was believed that all of these were produced by sexual arousal so the surgical removal of the clitoris was a sure cure for the disease . |
| 50 | It was believed that many of the functions of Clark Field — including the provision of transit facilities for special operations forces — were to be transferred to the Cubi Point Naval Air Station at Subic Bay . |
| 51 | It was believed that similar action would follow very quickly in Scotland , where the Child Care Law Review was nearing completion . |
| 52 | Unidentified groups of rioters attacked and set on fire the city police headquarters , where it was believed that some of those arrested earlier in University Square were being held . |
| 53 | It was believed that Colombian drug cartels , harried by the Colombian authorities , had shifted their operations across the border to take advantage of the sophisticated Venezuelan banking system which made the business side of drug trafficking difficult to detect . |
| 54 | It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space . |
| 55 | Originally it was believed that this was a simple ‘ smokescreen ’ , a kind of instant fog in which the cuttlefish became hidden and could escape . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 58 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
| 59 | In this endeavour the planners had support in Council since it was believed that national legislation had to be enforced and the result was that Orcadians suffered delays or refusals in their building applications . |