Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] believed [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any attempt to generalize about the English village is therefore regarded as an affront : bland uniformity is an attribute of the urban population , but the English village is believed to be resistant to any summary . |
| 2 | The protective effect of HDL against atheroma formation is believed to be due to the HDL 2 subfraction ( Miller et al , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | The population is believed to be similar to Darlington 's and there is a technical college devoted to metal work . |
| 4 | If any person involved in a takeover is believed to be guilty of breaching the Code , the Panel executive will invite him ( or it ) to appear before the full Panel with his advisers ( if he wishes ) to explain his conduct . |
| 5 | Tranmere manager John King is believed to be keen to bring the utility man to Prenton Park . |
| 6 | The internal announcement of the resignation circulated December 21 also spoke of his ‘ leave of absence ’ from the company but Harris ' appointment is believed to be permanent . |
| 7 | Response to music is believed to be dominant in the right hemisphere and as a result would be expected to exact a similar reduction in left field advantage to that found for right field advantage in the trigram tasks discussed here . |
| 8 | The Government is believed to be willing to accept the recommendation . |
| 9 | The Government is believed to be reluctant to push rates any higher , but City analysts predicted it would act if pressure on sterling became too great to hold with intervention alone . |
| 10 | These same characteristics were found in children with functional faecal retention , a condition common in the school age child , in which physiology of the colon is believed to be normal and constipation results from retentive behaviour by a child who is afraid of painful defecation . |
| 11 | Mohammadreza Nezameddin Mohaved 's health is believed to be deteriorating . |
| 12 | Those with near-normal left ventricular function and advanced obstructive coronary artery disease in whom reversible ischaemia is believed to be responsible for cardiac arrest can be treated with revascularisation alone . |
| 13 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 14 | However , a decision is believed to be imminient and reports suggest the SFO will take no further action . |
| 15 | But his company is believed to be close to appointing advisors for a flotation in New York . |
| 16 | The role played by an endoprosthesis is believed to be two-fold . |
| 17 | This sensitive balance is believed to be upset by the release of CFC 's through the atmosphere , into the stratosphere . |
| 18 | The decline is believed to be due to a combination of excessively dry summers in 1989 and 1990 , strong winds in late 1990 and a late frost in spring 1991 . |