Example sentences of "[be] [adv] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 2 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks . |
| 9 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 10 | It was widely believed that 78-year-old President Kim Il Sung — around whom an extraordinary personality cult had been created — desired that his son should succeed him , but that the younger Kim lacked sufficient authority within either the ruling party or the army to be sure of a smooth succession . |
| 11 | And it was popularly believed that those ideas were n't prevalent until much later presumably . |