Example sentences of "[noun pl] it be believed [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the French waterlily hybridiser Joseph Latour Marliac concentrated on producing hardy varieties it is believed that he used the semi tropical waterlily N. mexicana to create some of the popular varieties available today . |
| 2 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 3 | For years it was believed that the ‘ fanatic ’ Toscanini conducted everything very fast , though it is an attested fact that his Bayreuth Parsifal was the slowest in the theatre 's history and that his famous Falstaff , not to mention a good deal of his Mozart and Brahms , was unusually broad in its pacing . |
| 4 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 5 | With such large corpora it is believed that improved language models may be created . |
| 6 | Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them . |