Example sentences of "was believed to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Last Wednesday the Bank was believed to have spent as much as $1bn . |
| 3 | The town was believed to have been founded in 1163 though most of the surviving old buildings date from the 16th. and 17th. centuries . |
| 4 | After the Battle of Culloden , James Drummond , heir to the Duke of Perth , was believed to have drowned while escaping to France . |
| 5 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 6 | Late last night he was believed to have taken well over a third of all the votes cast in the Sicilian capital . |
| 7 | That original Chiswick House was believed to have been built by Sir Edward Wardour but it later passed into the hands of Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset . |
| 8 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 9 | Previously , 6 January had been celebrated as the Epiphany , or anniversary of Christ 's baptism , which was believed to have occurred on his thirtieth birthday . |
| 10 | There was believed to have been an incestuous relationship between Alfonso and Urraca and they were probably responsible for Sancho 's death . |
| 11 | About half way down the hill forming the eastern slope of Nafferton Slack , by the road-side , to prevent waggons leaving the roadway , stood a large stone , which was believed to have wonderful powers . |
| 12 | Werner Gerhardt , which was believed to have been the victim of A.A. fire by the Germans , but was probably shot down by Whittingham , and another He111 from 4/KG 26 which crash-landed on return with a dead gunner . |
| 13 | Dennis attacked a merchant ship of some 5,000 tons , gaining hits as a result of which the vessel was believed to have foundered . |
| 14 | Long lines of aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip were attacked , and much damage was believed to have been done ; in fact many Bf110s and Ju52s were damaged , some seriously , but these attacks did little to stem the assault on the island . |
| 15 | She was believed to have died with her mother , Barbara , and sister , Sarah . |
| 16 | The gun used to fire at the police was believed to have been a handgun , a spokeswoman added . |
| 17 | The overweight 45year-old was believed to have suffocated her 65-year-old victim during a furious row . |
| 18 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 19 | In 1912 , he was believed to have attempted to board the ill-fated Titanic only to be refused , thus saving his life . |
| 20 | During the war Britain had provided the European lead and because of its wartime role was believed to have the reasons and the opportunity to effect some kind of unity . |
| 21 | Grant was not himself a landowner in Perthshire , but he was believed to have influence with those who were , and his correspondent insisted that |
| 22 | The nation was believed to have fallen into a phase of cataclysmic evil . |
| 23 | And by virtue of a document that purportedly ‘ came to light ’ in the eighth century , the so-called ‘ Donation of Constantine ’ , he was believed to have conferred certain of his own secular powers upon the Pope . |
| 24 | At Beaulieu Abbey near Loches he would have seen the piece of stone from the Holy Sepulchre which his notoriously savage ancestor Count Fulk the Black was believed to have bitten off while kneeling down to pray there on one of his three pilgrimages to Jerusalem . |
| 25 | Paul Smith has argued that Disraeli was no great reformer but was of enormous value to the party because he was believed to have been one ; in rediscovering Disraeli , the USRC rediscovered the myth too . |
| 26 | As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 . |
| 27 | Furthermore , although he was believed to have committed more than one murder , he enjoyed a surprisingly mild and genial reputation . |
| 28 | They can not intervene unless the decision-maker steps outside the boundaries of what the legislature was believed to have allowed . |
| 29 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 30 | 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 . |