Example sentences of "believe [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About two million people were left without power in Florida , where the storm touched off about 50 tornadoes believed to have been responsible for at least 18 deaths . |
| 2 | A vengeful Mrs Wallace Reid turned over to police all the names of those she believed had been responsible for Wally 's debauched lifestyle . |
| 3 | About 10,000 people were believed to have been involved in the clashes , in which police , army units and factory militias armed with water-cannon and truncheons clashed with crowds hurling cobblestones and shouting ‘ We want to get out . ’ |
| 4 | Security forces are believed to have been involved in numerous killings this year in Silvan , Diyarbakir province , thought previously to have been carried out by Hizbullah . |
| 5 | The man is believed to have been involved in a series of robberies in the north of England over recent months . |
| 6 | Of 41 positive drugs tests by the Sports Council in 1990/91 , up to 21 are believed to have been accidental , sportsmen who absorbed banned substances while taking medication for illnesses of various sorts . |
| 7 | One of them , Janeth Sánchez Talavera , was a journalist believed to have been close to Sendero leader Abimael Gúzman Renoso . |
| 8 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 9 | They are believed to have been non-violent , adhering scrupulously to an other-worldly pacifism . |
| 10 | They are believed to have been celibate . |
| 11 | Tickets sales were believed to have been slow and there was some criticism of the £23.50 ticket price tag . |
| 12 | A destructive flood was an annual possibility , and the god of Heaven Anu and the storm-god Enlil , who were believed to have been responsible for the decision to destroy mankind , were invoked in the incantation passages of the legend of the Flood . |
| 13 | For example , American intelligence is believed to have been responsible for setting up Alpha 66 , the most violent and unpredictable of the Cuban , anti-C astro exile organisations . |
| 14 | Payne , Whitson and Varga are believed to have been responsible for much of the consortium 's recent sales of its catalogue and anti-NT white paper , a source of revenue . |
| 15 | Kintanar , 42 , was believed to have been responsible for the NPA 's post-Marcos strategy of trying to increase the organization 's capacity to extend its guerrilla war from its traditional rural sphere . |
| 16 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 17 | The two men were held in military custody , incommunicado , for some time and are believed to have been ill-treated . |