Example sentences of "believed [to-vb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case is believed to have cost the group £2.2m . |
| 2 | West Germany was also believed to have cited the case of US support for a ruling in July 1989 [ see p. 37021 ] which lifted controls on the export to eastern Europe of 16-bit microcomputers , a product where the USA was more competitive than the European countries . |
| 3 | Intel is believed to have altered the process it uses to fabricate the hard-to-build chips and wo n't know until the autumn whether the process actually works . |
| 4 | Webber is believed to have refined the four characters , devised by Newman , into the essential dipolar structure by which most long-running serials operate , namely conflict . |
| 5 | The five affected ministers were believed to have expressed the desire to step down , but Chandra Shekhar ruled out their resignation , taking the strictly technical line that they could continue as ministers for six months without being members of parliament . |
| 6 | Mark is believed to have become the first blind presenter to host his own radio show when he took to the airwaves at BBC Radio Cleveland yesterday . |
| 7 | In this respect it was similar to the ban on P. G. Wodehouse 's novels during the Second World War when his broadcasts in Germany were believed to have given the Nazis propaganda support . |
| 8 | Thus , orbital variations are believed to have caused the cyclic glaciations of the past 700,000 yr ( the Milankovitch hypothesis ) . |
| 9 | The massive $100m federal anti-trust suit that Addamax has lodged against the OSF ( UX No 331 ) , is believed to have influenced the FTC 's decision to put its own investigation on hold . |
| 10 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 11 | Djinn are governed by a race of kings named Suleyman , one of whom is believed to have erected the pyramids . |
| 12 | Two men , possibly with Liverpool accents , are believed to have bought the weapons locally at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 13 | The Labour leader , John Smith , is believed to have told the Scottish leadership not to support any efforts to set up a Scottish parliamentary council and Mr Clarke 's proposals are intended to maintain Lib Dem support for the convention . |
| 14 | However , following Noriega 's formal assumption of power on Dec. 15 as head of state , a United States military invasion of Dec. 20 led to the overthrow of Noriega and the immediate installation of Guillermo Endara Galimany ( widely believed to have won the May elections ) as President [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 15 | The LDP was believed to have won the bulk of the 17,000 congressional and local posts also being decided by the election . |
| 16 | It has been recently used to date the Turin Shroud , previously believed to have wrapped the body of Christ , to the medieval period . |
| 17 | An argument over the length of their Christmas holidays was believed to have triggered the clashes , in which up to 600 people were reported killed . |
| 18 | But , hell-bent on destruction , the hooligans — at least two strong men — are believed to have rocked the seats until the bolts snapped . |
| 19 | A terrorist on a motor bike is believed to have planted the bombs . |
| 20 | The agency brief is believed to have stressed the need to educate potential consumers about the costs of healthcare for the elderly which is not always covered by the Government or conventional insurance policies . |
| 21 | Aquino expressed her disappointment that , after an exhaustive legal process , the court had not directly implicated those , including the Marcoses , who were widely believed to have ordered the crime [ see p. 37716 ] . |
| 22 | An unknown number of East Germans were believed to have entered the West German mission in East Berlin , which was officially closed to the public , and others to have gone to the West German Embassy in Sofia , Bulgaria . |
| 23 | At least 5,000 settlers are believed to have entered the reserve via this road . |
| 24 | Iraq , for its part , was widely believed to have condoned the " hot pursuit " of the Kurdish activists , who had been conducting guerrilla activities against the Turkish authorities for some 20 years , and indeed it had signed agreements to this effect during the 1980s . |
| 25 | They hoped to arrange a meeting with Mr Mugabe , who in his capacity as Chancellor of the university was believed to have taken the decision to close the campus . |
| 26 | He is believed to have taken the full force of the blast , on October 24 , 1990 , and died instantly . |
| 27 | Finally , we must be concerned by the fact that in at least one school ( see Chapter 5 ) the senior member of staff whose demand for IS resources was widely believed to have instigated the original project initiative could not himself describe how he used the project acquisitions in his own work . |
| 28 | Intel is believed to have changed the ‘ recipe ’ it uses to fabricate the hard-to-build chips and wo n't know until the autumn whether the process actually works . |
| 29 | The massacre brought an unprecedented official government apology from President Ranasinghe Premadasa , the announcement of an inquiry by a military court into the actions of the troops involved ( who were believed to have launched the attack in revenge after the death of six soldiers in a land mine explosion ) , and the reported suspension and detention of their commanding officer on June 20 . |
| 30 | He is believed to have caught the disease from a patient . |