Example sentences of "believed [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that each of the twenty amino acids is represented in DNA code by a particular sequence of three bases . |
| 2 | But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) . |
| 3 | For many years the French have firmly believed that regular pummelling is vital to the body beautiful . |
| 4 | It is believed that similar reserves exist along the coast . |
| 5 | It was believed that similar action would follow very quickly in Scotland , where the Child Care Law Review was nearing completion . |
| 6 | It is believed that many dischargers , particularly industrialists , have such control over their manufacturing and treatment processes that they are able to alter the quality and quantity of their effluents virtually at will , as economic considerations dictate . |
| 7 | The developers also believed that many of the near-miss cases could also be solved by using some simple morphological and/or syntactic analysis . |
| 8 | It was believed that many of the functions of Clark Field — including the provision of transit facilities for special operations forces — were to be transferred to the Cubi Point Naval Air Station at Subic Bay . |
| 9 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 10 | ( b ) alternative , as in the cases of the provision of alternative facilities for the production , exhibition or publication of certain kinds of work , where it is believed that existing institutions exclude or tend to exclude these ; |
| 11 | However , it is believed that due to remarks made about ‘ A ’ Flight 's flying capabilities in the Officers ' Mess on the night before the Air Officer Commanding 's ( AOC 'd ) Annual Inspection , this happened the next day . |
| 12 | I am a lifetime supporter of British membership of the European Community , but I have never believed that that support implies acceptance of a united states of Europe . |
| 13 | His mother had believed that forty-watt bulbs were perfectly adequate for overhead lights . |
| 14 | The six months ' stock of parts was exhausted and it was believed that 10 to 15 per cent of the weapons and between 30 and 35 per cent of vehicles were unserviceable . |
| 15 | It was directed at ministers and social workers , and it is believed that one Orkney social worker was invited to that seminar , as well as a Baptist minister who had helped to organise the summer camp on Rousay . |
| 16 | It is believed that one of them moved the regulator and opened it up with the result that the train was soon out of control . |
| 17 | The police investigation is continuing , but it is believed that two plastic barrels containing some 300 lb of home-made explosive were placed beside the roadside hedge and detonated by command wire from a vantage point overlooking the scene . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | Marr , a genuinely helpful person , actually believed that such trivia would be vital information to young listening ears . |
| 20 | A large part of the dominant society at the time really believed that such subjects , and suggestions were more a figment of my neurosis and my hang-ups but time has proven that view to be untrue . |
| 21 | It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt . |
| 22 | But it is also believed that such cellular circulation develops on smooth coasts with uniform offshore bottom topography . |
| 23 | Soon afterwards it was believed that such a planet had been discovered in transit across the Sun . |
| 24 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 25 | It is believed that substantial numbers of ‘ additional ’ known drug users may have been ‘ missed ’ only in the case of GPs ( to whom 124 problem drug users were known exclusively in the first survey ) . |
| 26 | Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it . |
| 27 | It was believed that Western military preponderance throughout most of Asia and Africa had been undercut by the balancing effect of the Soviet Union , which made formal American military alignment with Third World states both more hazardous and anachronistic . |
| 28 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 29 | It was believed that all of these were produced by sexual arousal so the surgical removal of the clitoris was a sure cure for the disease . |
| 30 | It is believed that all but two committees have carried out some form of investigation based on information provided in the 1991 series of reports . |