Example sentences of "[adv] believed to be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , this fact is more firmly registered in the layman 's mind than any other , and if he or she were asked to give a name to some species , it would probably be either Tyrannosaurus Rex ( wrongly believed to be the known largest ) , Brontosaurus or Diplodocus , the three most often mentioned . |
| 2 | On his retirement from the Civil Service six years ago … he became President of the Clapham Liberal Association , and at the General Election of 1916 was the chosen parliamentary candidate for the new constituency of South Battersea where he put up a strong fight against odds for what he firmly and honestly believed to be the tight . |
| 3 | The Commission was widely believed to be the only hope of reversing the Ostflucht and was allocated vast sums of money by the Prussian government . |
| 4 | The grandson , who lives in Germany , is widely believed to be the driving force behind the court case . |
| 5 | It is also difficult to understand how what is sometimes believed to be the essential ‘ minimum ’ syllabus of the three-year single subject degree can be halved without loss of disciplinary integrity . |
| 6 | This statue , now in Kunst Historishche Museum in Vienna , was until recently believed to be the Roman statue found at Magdalensberg in the sixteenth century and as such the only complete Roman statue ever found north of the Alps . |