Example sentences of "believe to have be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excavation has also uncovered the impressive rock-cut ditch of the Norman motte and bailey castle , believed to have been built in the 1080s . |
| 2 | The refusal to talk , believed to have been decided in a meeting of the Politburo , contributed to renewed speculation here that Mr Honecker may no longer be in full control . |
| 3 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 4 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 5 | The bomb on board the Boeing 747 Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) passenger aircraft flight PA 103 on Dec. 21 , 1988 , which had killed all 259 people on board and 11 people in the village of Lockerbie [ see pp. 36409-10 ] was believed to have been placed in luggage which joined the flight at Frankfurt . |
| 6 | The first church here is believed to have been built in the fifth-century on the site of a pagan temple to Apollo . |
| 7 | It 's thought the body is that of a man , but it 's not believed to have been mutilated in any way . |
| 8 | He was widely believed to have been interned in a labour camp in the mid-1930s ( a fate shared by the greater part of the clergy ) , and again for a year immediately after the Second World War , following military service . |
| 9 | The jewellery and medals , including an Iron Cross , are believed to have been stolen in Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Oxfordshire and perhaps Birmingham . |
| 10 | Copies of the leaflet , headlined ‘ Help Yourself Unlimited ’ , are believed to have been circulated in London shops as a prelude to what shopkeepers fear could be a campaign of organised theft . |
| 11 | The town was believed to have been founded in 1163 though most of the surviving old buildings date from the 16th. and 17th. centuries . |
| 12 | They are believed to have been caught in a storm without enough food or water . |