Example sentences of "[noun] be believed to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all goes smoothly , she now has the chance to become the first ‘ young British designer ’ to be internationally recognised ( oddly , in the fashion business , designers are believed to be as young as their clothes look , which , in Hamnett 's case , is about 19 ) . |
| 2 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 3 | Soviet Kurds numbered 152,952 according to the 1989 census , although this figure was believed to be substantially underestimated . |
| 4 | The costs to the motorist are believed to be broadly similar to those for a car phone , with a sliding scale of charges based on the level and frequency of use . |
| 5 | Most industrialised governments are believed to be so alarmed by new reports demonstrating the rapid destruction of the ozone layer that they will almost certainly approve a new target of 1996 . |
| 6 | A separate inquiry is believed to be still continuing into the other trustee , Coutts , which was responsible for the remaining five unit trusts . |
| 7 | In 1933 its total membership was believed to be about 300 , but the cost of a fund-raising appeal for £25,000 proved to be more than the sum collected and the movement went £800 into debt . |
| 8 | ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle . |
| 9 | Subsequent writers , however , have copied Patrick Forbes 's work without checking for themselves , and the misleading myth has evolved in which the first thousand litres of the cuvée is believed to be officially designated the premiere cuvée . |
| 10 | The families of republican murderer Anna Moore and loyalist killer Bobby Corry are believed to be bitterly divided over their controversial decision to wed . |
| 11 | Within this context , however , Coot are believed to be fairly common . |
| 12 | Jack is believed to be about nine months old but is painfully small because of constant neglect , said Mrs Taylor . |
| 13 | The distance of the cluster is believed to be over 9000 light-years ; it contains several thousands of stars , and it can not be less than 30 light-years in diameter . |
| 14 | ( Why this word was specially chosen has been the subject of scholarly controversy ; the probable answer is that the Christian who died for Christ was believed to be uniquely united with his crucified Master , thereby linking the concept of witness with sacrificial dying ; but in martyrdom the cause is primary , the dying secondary . ) |
| 15 | Nothing is known of their breeding habits , but females are believed to be more robust than males . |
| 16 | All but the first of these are characteristics of many less highly evolved haplochromines ( Mbuna are believed to be highly specialised descendants of a haplochromine ancestor ) , eg Astatotilapia . |
| 17 | Populations of red deer and boar are believed to be under greater pressure from hunters due to wartime shortages . |
| 18 | The coral sand surrounding coral reefs is believed to be mostly produced by Parrotfish and Triggerfish . |
| 19 | At the present time , as we have described , the problem with daytime sleep is believed to be only that it is too short . |
| 20 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 21 | Jason is believed to be still unconscious at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 22 | NCD 's base is believed to be largely in the technical arena . |
| 23 | The red Sierra is believed to be either A , C or D-registered . |
| 24 | The data collection study also ascertains cases of leukaemia and lymphoma directly from diagnostic sources within hospitals in its study areas , and these are crosschecked with cancer registration records ; ascertainment for these diagnostic groups is believed to be virtually complete . |
| 25 | Asian rhino horn is believed to be more potent and is worth around £30,000 a kilo , while the larger African horn fetches only £1,000 a kilo . |
| 26 | The problem is believed to be either an Achilles tendon strain or a stress fracture of the right foot . |
| 27 | Our Earth is believed to be about 4.5 billion ( 4500 million ) years old , and life is believed to have begun on it around 3.5 billion years ago . |
| 28 | The Queen Mother is believed to be strongly against divorced Anne 's decision to remarry on Saturday . |