Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] believed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 2 | He was opposed by Corazon Aquino ( the widow of the country 's most prominent opponent of the Marcos regime until his murder in 1983 — see pp. 32517-18 ) , and although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
| 3 | Although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
| 4 | Although he lacked the impeccable conservative credentials of Sununu , it was generally believed that Skinner would be acceptable to the right wing of the Republican Party . |
| 5 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 6 | Göring added that it was widely believed that Poland intended to annex East Prussia and Danzig in the near future . |
| 7 | It was widely believed that middle and low-level government employees accepted gifts in return for favours . |
| 8 | With no likelihood of progress in the dispute , it was widely believed that Yeltsin had cancelled his visit in order to avoid a failure to achieve progress on the issue similar to that which had accompanied the visit by the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 . |
| 9 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 10 | It was widely believed that North Korea had the capacity — or was on the verge of achieving it — to produce a nuclear weapon . |
| 11 | It was widely believed that Exxon did not intend to restart the cleanup operation in the spring , for which it was condemned by environmentalists , the Alaskan state government and the local population of the Alaskan town of Valdez . |
| 12 | It was widely believed that Paul Muite would be persuaded by younger members of the party to become the fourth FORD candidate . |
| 13 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 14 | It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight . |
| 15 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 16 | While it was widely believed that Bush was not as emotionally committed to the SDI programme as Reagan , his administration was proceeding with the development of revised versions of the concept , notably " Brilliant Pebbles ' . |
| 17 | Whether Mrs Thatcher herself was implicated in the leak is not known , but it was widely believed that Brittan resigned to save her skin . |
| 18 | It was widely believed that Eleanor Coade had invented a new process for making artificial stone . |
| 19 | It was widely believed that City were no more guilty than a great many other clubs keen to do well in the emergency competitions . |
| 20 | It was falsely believed that deprivation was a ‘ geographical ’ problem rather than a social and economic one , that particularly affected families in inner cities who passed multiple deprivations from generation to generation . |
| 21 | At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature . |
| 22 | It was long believed that remarriage and the prospects of remarriage must be taken into account when considering a widower 's claim but this must be in some doubt following the wide interpretation given to s4 of the Act in Stanley v Siddique [ 1992 ] 1 QB 1 : see Kemp & Kemp ( Sweet & Maxwell ) 22 – 004 et seq . |