Example sentences of "[be] believed " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victims , who 're believed to be in their late twenties and from the Hereford area were both travelling in the car . |
| 2 | Similarly , the personal lives of artists may be believed by editors to sell more newspapers than reflective criticism . |
| 3 | These forms of art , however , can generally be believed to have only a friendly connection with their inspiration , which , indeed , is normally only the starting point for the exercise of the talent of the musician or the poet . |
| 4 | If all the claims of timber merchants and suppliers are to be believed , most tropical timber sold in Britain is already produced on a sustainable basis . |
| 5 | This means in practical terms that friends and club are OK , and are to be believed , while ‘ outsiders ’ of all kinds are not , nor are they worth contacting to check information . |
| 6 | After listening to Mr Lightman 's allegations , Lord Donaldson said that if Mr Oliver 's affidavit was to be believed then The Mail on Sunday had acted in ‘ a wholly hypocritical way . ’ |
| 7 | Some of Ferguson 's tries had to be seen to be believed . |
| 8 | This is pop music without guts , without pattern or consistent thought , sung by a voice as thin and weedy , if the sleeve photo is to be believed , as the performer 's own physique . |
| 9 | And if the form book is to be believed , Nashwan is clearly No. 1 because Ile De Nisky finished seven and a half lengths behind him at Epsom , but got a length nearer to Old Vic at The Curragh . |
| 10 | Something like it still seems to be believed by some economists close to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 11 | Joseph II will always be remembered for finding ‘ too many notes ’ in Die Entfuhrung ; and our own Queen has an almost comparable claim on immortality if the story is to be believed that when asked to attend a performance of Figaro , she replied : ‘ Is that the one about the pin ? ’ |
| 12 | She did not report it because she did not think she would be believed . |
| 13 | The avalanche of red tape surrounding events such as this ( the entire population of New Delhi appears to be employed handing out forms to fill in ) has to be seen to be believed , and it is by no means certain that , come 1 November , there will be any paper left to provide the winners with their cheque . |
| 14 | The mechanical frenzy has to be experienced to be believed , accompanied in the test car by a horrible dashboard resonance in mid-range . |
| 15 | Even this can affect refugees adversely — their stories of torture may not be believed when they apply for asylum . |
| 16 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 17 | If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ . |
| 18 | But it appears to be getting less so , if government figures are to be believed . |
| 19 | The inhabitants are hidden behind their city walls , cowering in fear , if Rahab is to be believed . |
| 20 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 21 | The ‘ special announcements ’ on the German radio of the rapid , almost unimpeded , advance of the Wehrmacht in the west could therefore scarcely be believed . |
| 22 | When Mary Queen of Scots embarked on her headline-hitting affair with James Hepburn , earl of Bothwell , she not only created an immense drama for herself , but raised echoes of earlier headlines ; for two previous queens , Mary of Gueldres and her own mother Mary of Guise were , if rumour could be believed , on the receiving end of the Hepburn family 's habit of being ‘ kind to queens ’ . |
| 23 | By BEN FENTON WHATEVER is pushing women voters towards the Liberal Democrats , it is not some mysterious ‘ Ashdown Factor ’ , if the party 's female supporters in Richmond-upon-Thames are to be believed . |
| 24 | To which could be added that you do n't need to be the best to be top , if the ballerina Lyudmila Semenyaka is to be believed . |
| 25 | As a result , if the polls are to be believed , the gap in popularity between him and Mr Kinnock began to close . |
| 26 | Four of the relieving kicks he launched in this match had to be seen to be believed , particularly as he varied his kicking foot . |
| 27 | Martin Tweedle , head of Heckmondwike Grammar , Kirklees , is under no illusions : ‘ If Labour 's manifesto is to be believed , we do n't really have a future . |
| 28 | Now , sadly , ( if the Press is to be believed ) they seem principally an anti-terrorist force , and whereas in 1944 their aims were sabotage and hitting a recognised enemy as hard as they could , today they are forced to deal largely with the un-uniformed enemy in our midst . |
| 29 | Tawell did , however , try on a version of the events he hoped would be believed . |
| 30 | ‘ Not if the file is to be believed . ’ |