Example sentences of "widely believed to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saadi was widely believed to be involved in drug trafficking and corruption , and local public opinion had become increasingly incensed over the alleged involvement of members of the governor 's family in the death in September 1990 of a local teenager . |
| 2 | Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported . |
| 3 | The impasse in the latest round of negotiations was widely believed to be due to continued French opposition to US proposals for a cut in the volume of EC-subsidised cereal exports . |
| 4 | That leaves difficult cases where an expert has reached a decision which is widely believed to be incorrect but can not be challenged . |
| 5 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 6 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 7 | Marco Tulio Hernández , 28 , a member of the Honduran Human Rights Defence Committee and of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees in Honduras was shot dead in San Pedro Sula on July 22 ; the military was widely believed to be responsible . |
| 8 | Angry crowds would curse George I , Whigs and Dissenters , the Duke of Marlborough ( a warmonger , and the man widely believed to be responsible for encouraging George I to show all his favour to the Whigs ) , and often even William III , whilst reserving their cheers for James III , the Duke of Ormonde ( the Tory who had replaced Marlborough as Captain-General of the Land Forces in 1712 ) , Dr Sacheverell , and the Church of England . |