Example sentences of "it was believed [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was believed that such measures would stimulate industry and increase employment in the short-term until Britain 's economic markets were restored by the revival of world trade and increasing cost-effective output : |
| 2 | Soon afterwards it was believed that such a planet had been discovered in transit across the Sun . |
| 3 | In Victorian England unpleasant odours were synonymous with disease and it was believed that pleasant odours could neutralize them . |
| 4 | The six months ' stock of parts was exhausted and it was believed that 10 to 15 per cent of the weapons and between 30 and 35 per cent of vehicles were unserviceable . |
| 5 | It was believed that all of these were produced by sexual arousal so the surgical removal of the clitoris was a sure cure for the disease . |
| 6 | It was believed that similar action would follow very quickly in Scotland , where the Child Care Law Review was nearing completion . |
| 7 | At this time , it was believed that female genitalia were merely internal versions of the male , with the clitoris being a tiny penis , and it was the greater heat of the male that had expelled his organs . |
| 8 | It was believed that Western military preponderance throughout most of Asia and Africa had been undercut by the balancing effect of the Soviet Union , which made formal American military alignment with Third World states both more hazardous and anachronistic . |
| 9 | It was believed that many of the functions of Clark Field — including the provision of transit facilities for special operations forces — were to be transferred to the Cubi Point Naval Air Station at Subic Bay . |
| 10 | Unidentified groups of rioters attacked and set on fire the city police headquarters , where it was believed that some of those arrested earlier in University Square were being held . |
| 11 | It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space . |
| 12 | Originally it was believed that this was a simple ‘ smokescreen ’ , a kind of instant fog in which the cuttlefish became hidden and could escape . |
| 13 | It was believed that this intervention would be aided if the state had control of certain key industries ( eg coal , railways , gas , electricity distribution ) , which were crucial to post-war economic recovery and which were in such a rundown state that it was unlikely that sufficient private capital would materialise to rejuvenate them . |
| 14 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 15 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
| 16 | It was believed that Colombian drug cartels , harried by the Colombian authorities , had shifted their operations across the border to take advantage of the sophisticated Venezuelan banking system which made the business side of drug trafficking difficult to detect . |
| 17 | In this endeavour the planners had support in Council since it was believed that national legislation had to be enforced and the result was that Orcadians suffered delays or refusals in their building applications . |