Example sentences of "[be] [adv] believe [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers .
2 It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt .
3 It was widely believed that all restrictions on economic relations would be removed once an appropriate formula of agreement could be devised which would be acceptable to nationalist sensitivities .
4 It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks .
5 And it was popularly believed that those ideas were n't prevalent until much later presumably .
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