Example sentences of "it was believed that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timing of such an arrangement would be crucial if adverse American reaction was to be avoided ; it was believed that the first approaches should be to the Dominions , followed by the USA , USSR , and China , culminating in a full international conference . |
| 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 | It was believed that the Soviets already had superiority in conventional armies and weapons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was believed that the smoke of this species had the power of expelling evil spirits . |
| 6 | He could only get temporary relief from certain drugs and it was believed that the same drug contributed to the hardening of the liver which led to his death . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While sanctification was essentially a work of God 's grace rather than of the human will , it was believed that the process could be assisted by the discipline imposed by the church . |
| 9 | Initially it was believed that the general devolution to smaller administrative entities would , in itself , create the conditions for asylums to be closed down . |
| 10 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At this time it was believed that the return of Mr. Osman to Hong Kong was imminent . |
| 13 | Originally it was believed that the preferred hand was a reliable indicator of the speech-dominant hemisphere . |
| 14 | It was believed that the principal rumour-monger was poor George Brown . |
| 15 | In particular , it was believed that the speed of light ought to change as the earth moves through the ether on its orbit around the sun . |
| 16 | Up to 1956 it was believed that the laws of physics obeyed each of three separate symmetries called C , P , and T. The symmetry C means that the laws are the same for particles and antiparticles . |
| 17 | History will decry our time as a period of market soothsaying when it was believed that the market could provide everything and solve all problems . |
| 18 | It was believed that the inclusion in the plan of provisions for the use of foreign loans and for a more liberal market policy was the source of the Council of Guardians ' complaint [ see also p. 37333 ] . |
| 19 | It was believed that the French state-controlled defence contractor , Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation , was reconsidering the sale of its Alpha jet trainers to Iraq in the light of the decision on British Aerospace . |
| 20 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 21 | Based on Iraq 's own admission [ see above ] it was believed that the air war might have killed 20,000 ( of whom an estimated 1,000 were civilians ) , while a further 15,000 troops were thought to have been killed in the ground campaign . |
| 22 | During 1990 it was believed that the strength of the NPA had fallen to around 19,000 compared with 25,600 in 1988 , as a result of the continuing success of the armed forces in disrupting and demoralizing the guerrillas by targeting the movement 's leadership . |
| 23 | It was believed that the accident happened as an indirect result of heavy rain and snow storms in the city . |
| 24 | It was believed that the latter group had agreed to support him in return for the promise of positions on congressional committees . |
| 25 | There then followed a frenzied round of negotiations during which it was believed that the Renamo leader was encouraged to sign the accord by the South African government and by Roland " Tiny " Rowland , the chief executive of the UK-based multinational Lonrho who had played a key role in the negotiations process [ see p. 39039 ] . |
| 26 | Moreover , it was believed that the relationship was such that sales to Otis would probably have remained unaffected if the patent had not been granted . |
| 27 | 8.1.4 any other act or thing by which but for this provision the Guarantor would have been released [ other than a variation of the terms of this Lease agreed between the parties that is prejudicial to the Guarantor ] Until the case of P & A Swift Investments v Combined English Stores Group plc it was believed that the benefit of a guarantor 's covenants could only be enforced by a successor in title to the landlord 's reversion , where there had been an express assignment to it . |