Example sentences of "[be] believed [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His assassin was identified by police as El Sayed Noseir , a 37-year-old boiler repairman who was believed to be an Egyptian immigrant . |
| 32 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 33 | As with the area of homosexual conduct , the origin of public concern about prostitution lay , not in some liberal or permissive attitude of tolerance , but in a ‘ moral panic ’ over what was believed to be the increasing visibility of a form of deviant behaviour , this time over the increasing visibility of prostitutes and prostitution . |
| 34 | ‘ Ague ’ was malaria , meaning literally ‘ bad air ’ , the marshy miasma which , until the discovery of the malarial mosquito in 1880 , was believed to be the main cause of the disease . |
| 35 | At first it was thought that the nucleus of the atom was made up of electrons and different numbers of a positively charged particle called the proton , from the Greek word meaning " first , " because it was believed to be the fundamental unit from which matter was made . |