Example sentences of "it was believed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timing of such an arrangement would be crucial if adverse American reaction was to be avoided ; it was believed that the first approaches should be to the Dominions , followed by the USA , USSR , and China , culminating in a full international conference . |
| 2 | It was believed that sending a NATO force to any of these areas would deter any potential aggressor from taking action . |
| 3 | It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space . |
| 4 | It was believed that an Urban Development Grant might meet this need and Manchester City Council agreed to support the association 's application for this form of government assistance . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was believed that the Soviets already had superiority in conventional armies and weapons . |
| 9 | For years it was believed that the ‘ fanatic ’ Toscanini conducted everything very fast , though it is an attested fact that his Bayreuth Parsifal was the slowest in the theatre 's history and that his famous Falstaff , not to mention a good deal of his Mozart and Brahms , was unusually broad in its pacing . |
| 10 | It was believed that the smoke of this species had the power of expelling evil spirits . |
| 11 | The sugar was identified as either ribose or deoxyribose : for a time it was believed that plant nucleic acids always contained ribose and animal nucleic acids deoxyribose . |
| 12 | It was believed that , if the nation were to become more zealous in its service of God , there would be more hope of deliverance . |
| 13 | When the Almoravid general sent a token force of twenty mounted warriors to the gates of the city , their arrival caused such consternation that it was believed that there were actually 500 or more . |
| 14 | In Victorian England unpleasant odours were synonymous with disease and it was believed that pleasant odours could neutralize them . |
| 15 | At the beginning of this century it was believed that one could find a basic element of learning that was common to all these activities ; and that once this was established it would be possible to construct a single theory that would explain all learning and would provide a once-and-for-all guide to teaching . |
| 16 | It was believed that Butch , or Bomber Harris as they called him , did n't care how many men he lost if only the final result was the defeat of Hitler . |
| 17 | Originally it was believed that this was a simple ‘ smokescreen ’ , a kind of instant fog in which the cuttlefish became hidden and could escape . |
| 18 | He could only get temporary relief from certain drugs and it was believed that the same drug contributed to the hardening of the liver which led to his death . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She is regarded as passive ( because the light does not have the intensity of the sun ) , and productive because it was believed that her shining , heavenly presence encouraged the growth of crops . |
| 21 | N.G. Attenborough and his crew were killed , although it was believed that they had flown into a balloon barrage . |
| 22 | It was believed that similar action would follow very quickly in Scotland , where the Child Care Law Review was nearing completion . |
| 23 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 24 | At the time , it was believed that obsolescence was to blame . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was believed that Humphrey was a farm worker employed on the Normanby Park estate in the distant Past and that he had been found guilty of stealing from his employers . |
| 27 | At the time of the auction , it was believed that the wide expanse of sky had been skinned ; in fact the original sky was in remarkably fine condition , the skinned appearance due to discoloured overpaint . |
| 28 | While sanctification was essentially a work of God 's grace rather than of the human will , it was believed that the process could be assisted by the discipline imposed by the church . |
| 29 | By setting up a nuclear energy community at the outset , it was believed that it could provide an important impetus towards closer integration . |
| 30 | Initially it was believed that only one of these , the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus , was involved in visual perception and that the rest were involved in visual reflexes like pupillary control ( the pretectum ) , orientation movements ( the superior colliculus ) , and stabilization of the visual field when the head moves ( the accessory optic system ) . |