Example sentences of "[noun pl] be widely believed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quasars are widely believed to be the cores of young galaxies . |
| 2 | Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported . |
| 3 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 4 | The impasse in the latest round of negotiations was widely believed to be due to continued French opposition to US proposals for a cut in the volume of EC-subsidised cereal exports . |
| 5 | The Sultan 's endorsement of traditional Moslem values was widely believed to be a response to an increase in social problems , especially unemployment which increased from 3.6 per cent in 1988 to 6 per cent in 1989 . |