Example sentences of "be widely believed that [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely believed that people become less productive as they get older . |
| 2 | It was widely believed that Exxon did not intend to restart the cleanup operation in the spring , for which it was condemned by environmentalists , the Alaskan state government and the local population of the Alaskan town of Valdez . |
| 3 | It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight . |
| 4 | With no likelihood of progress in the dispute , it was widely believed that Yeltsin had cancelled his visit in order to avoid a failure to achieve progress on the issue similar to that which had accompanied the visit by the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 . |
| 5 | Göring added that it was widely believed that Poland intended to annex East Prussia and Danzig in the near future . |
| 6 | Whether Mrs Thatcher herself was implicated in the leak is not known , but it was widely believed that Brittan resigned to save her skin . |