Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] believed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pennants date from 1974 , while the chains are believed to be five years older . |
| 2 | The proposals were believed to be ‘ an attempt to cash limit a demand led service which will damage the doctor/patient relationship and be detrimental to patient care . ’ |
| 3 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 4 | The companies are believed to be looking at ways to have it support Windows applications as well , but the paper was told that that problem has not yet been solved . |
| 5 | The writer of the Psalms was believed to be King David . |
| 6 | Another of the casualties was believed to be a boy of nine . |
| 7 | The banks are believed to be reaching the point where their capital will fall below the minimum required under rules imposed by the Bank for International Settlements . |
| 8 | The banks are believed to be pressing for yet another rights issue of new shares at the company . |
| 9 | There is no obvious source and distribution methods vary , although many of the games are believed to be manufactured in Lincoln , Nebraska , home of the US National Socialist Party . |
| 10 | Other sources say the reason for the massacre was that the women were believed to be Irish whores , armed to fight . |
| 11 | The victims were believed to be a Lancashire textile boss and three friends . |