Example sentences of "[be] [adv] believed that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Such a theory involved denying the claims of James 's son , but doubts had been raised as to whether the Queen had really conceived the child , it being widely believed that the baby had been smuggled into the bed-chamber in a warming-pan . ) |
| 2 | There was nobody to take immediate advantage of the breakthrough because it had until then been universally believed that the learning of language and the understanding of ideas depended on the ability to hear words . |
| 3 | It is widely believed that the case presented by the police to the prosecutor and , through him , to court , consists purely of facts or evidence . |
| 4 | Although it is widely believed that the Spanish encountered an almost pristine landscape in AD 1521 ( refs 1–3 ) , some archival and palaeolimnological studies have suggested that extensive land clearance began before European contact , during the Preclassic to Postclassic periods . |
| 5 | It is widely believed that the conservatism of the farm worker and his attachment to traditional styles obliged manufacturers to continue to produce the same wide range of designs as had been produced by local smiths in the pre-industrial period . |
| 6 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has discussed , it is widely believed that the situation in the Himalaya will reach crisis proportions by the turn of the century , affecting not only that region but also downstream and deltaic areas that are in receipt of drainage from the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers . |
| 7 | It is generally believed that the law of real property in Malaysia is totally devoid of Islamic content … |
| 8 | While Mr Patiño may well be selling to simplify his life after he moves into his new London residence , Mrs Johnson 's reasons for selling are much more controversial , as it is generally believed that the heiress has not paid for the celebrated Badminton Cabinet which she bought at Christie 's , London , in July 1990 for a record £7.6 million ( $15.2 million ) . |
| 9 | Although some NMR studies have shown that it is possible to bind two actinomycin molecules to the tetranucleotide GCGC [ 29 ] , binding of the second molecule is highly anticooperative and it is generally believed that the exclusion site size for actinomycin , under normal conditions , is at least 4 base pairs [ 1 ] . |
| 10 | It is therefore believed that the unconformity does not correspond exactly to the base of the Westphalian D but falls within the Westphalian C. This is supported by regional stratigraphic relationships ( Ramsbottom et al . |
| 11 | For a few days at the beginning of August 1920 , it was widely believed that the Government was preparing to send a new British Expeditionary Force to relieve the Polish Army . |
| 12 | Similarly , explaining the use of the term sexual assault in the New South Wales legislation , Woods states : ‘ It was widely believed that the term ‘ rape ’ involved an unacceptable stigma for victims . ’ |
| 13 | With a net population gain in the South and West — regions where the Republicans had polled strongly in recent elections — it was widely believed that the effect of reapportionment would be to cost the Democrats at least 25 seats in the House . |
| 14 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |