Example sentences of "[noun] be believe [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some Berber tribes , pregnancies are believed to last any period — a good deal longer than nine months , certainly . |
| 2 | Medical appointments in military units were believed to provide useful experience to recent graduates or students , and were much in demand . |
| 3 | The effects were believed to have enduring consequences on the child 's thought processes and predispose to ( rather than precipitate ) schizophrenia . |
| 4 | The list of favoured clients who received compensation was believed to exceed 200 names . |
| 5 | So enormous was it that the behemoth was believed to drink whole rivers and consume one-thousand mountains a day . |
| 6 | The shorter half-life of 235 U results in it having a much lower abundance at present relative to 238 U. Because U and Th are believed to have similar distribution coefficients during mantle melting , a large fractionation in U/Pb is associated with change of similar magnitude in Th/Pb . |
| 7 | OLD boy networks , Freemasonry and chapel membership were believed to hold undue sway in the decisions of some Welsh councils , MPs were told yesterday . |
| 8 | The allegations are believed to involve several teenagers aged from 12 to 18 . |
| 9 | Within the Federal Reserve Board itself some of the governors were known to favour a less restrictive policy , while most of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents were believed to support high rates . |
| 10 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 11 | A FATHER-of-two was believed drowned last night after falling into a river as he walked home from a rugby club dance . |
| 12 | According to reports nearly 50 per cent of Spain 's 36,736 prisoners were believed to have some form of addiction and just under 25 per cent were said to be HIV positive . |
| 13 | Sharks , killer whales , and false killer whales are believed to present some threat to dolphins - scar marks thought to have been caused by shark attack have been observed . |
| 14 | Secondly , in the Keynesian function ( where money is a close substitute for bonds ) , the demand for money is interest-elastic because if the rate of interest earned from holding bonds changes , wealth holders are assumed to react only by changing their money holdings ; but in Friedman 's function ( where money is a substitute for all other assets , both financial and real ) , the demand for money is believed to exhibit low interest-elasticity . |
| 15 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 2 reported that the ruling family was believed to want two concessions on the Constitution in return for setting a date for National Assembly elections . |