Example sentences of "[was/were] believed [that] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially it was believed that the general devolution to smaller administrative entities would , in itself , create the conditions for asylums to be closed down . |
| 2 | Originally it was believed that the preferred hand was a reliable indicator of the speech-dominant hemisphere . |
| 3 | It was believed that the principal rumour-monger was poor George Brown . |
| 4 | At the time of the auction , it was believed that the wide expanse of sky had been skinned ; in fact the original sky was in remarkably fine condition , the skinned appearance due to discoloured overpaint . |
| 5 | Campaigners against the regulations were working to undermine the time-honoured alliance between medicine and morality but the healer who deployed his art ‘ honourably and fully ’ could never be in antagonism with divine law.It was believed that the curative functions of medicine provided their own moral guarantee . |
| 6 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |