Example sentences of "be [adv] believed to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The sacristy , reached after the second altar on the right , is widely believed to be the most beautiful in Milan because of the carved cupboards , the work of Giovanni Taurino , a master carver who was also responsible for the confessionals which he completed in 1596 . |
| 32 | Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls . |
| 33 | Various scientists have pioneered contact lens research but a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci is widely believed to be the earliest known reference to the principle of a contact lens ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 34 | The grandson , who lives in Germany , is widely believed to be the driving force behind the court case . |
| 35 | While appropriate for armies , this model of organization is widely believed to be too inflexible , remote , impersonal , ineffective and inefficient for welfare provision . |
| 36 | The Booksellers and Publishers Associations are concerned that the trade and the public will be lulled into a false sense of security by recent press reports that the Prime Minister is taking control of economic policy and that he is widely believed to be against increasing taxes , including VAT . |
| 37 | The next stage is the 586 , which is widely believed to be the P5 processor which Intel has pre-announced . |
| 38 | The thrust of the above arguments is the suggestion that there is , or is widely believed to be , a trade-off between efficiency and equity whose precise form is unknown . |
| 39 | That leaves difficult cases where an expert has reached a decision which is widely believed to be incorrect but can not be challenged . |
| 40 | He is generally believed to be commemorated in the place name Caradon , which formerly applied only to the hill around which he held sway but now covers a complete District of South East Cornwall . |
| 41 | The kraken is generally believed to be a type of giant cephalopod which normally lives and feeds at the bottom of the ocean . |
| 42 | Cecil chose what is generally believed to be safe stock . |
| 43 | There is thus believed to be a direct correlation between expected rewards and performance . |
| 44 | He was taken to the intensive care unit at the colony 's St Bernard 's Hospital but his life is not believed to be in danger . |
| 45 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 46 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 47 | The gunman is still believed to be at large , police have sealed off the area and are checking all cars . |
| 48 | BSB is also believed to be talking to Ford in the UK about providing communications with its dealers and to the Financial Times about a business service for large companies . |
| 49 | He is also believed to be embarrassed that one person should be earning so much when the recession and heavy unemployment has badly affected Coventry and the surrounding area . |
| 50 | Yet daytime is also believed to be responsible for about 75% of the visible signs of skin ageing . |
| 51 | The millionaire is also believed to be among the royal party on board the yacht , which boasts three speedboats , an eight-seater helicopter and a ballroom . |
| 52 | In its planned new role as a software and services specialist , DEC is also believed to be considering marketing the software for use on non-DEC hardware . |
| 53 | the different principle of reducing the scope of capital punishment to the minimum necessary for that preservation of law and order , and confining it to those forms of murder for which it is not only a particularly necessary , but is also believed to be a particularly effective , deterrent . |
| 54 | Manager John Stronge condemned the gang , which is also believed to be responsible for a series of attacks of the Belfast Castle Estate in recent months , and promised tough action . |
| 55 | The loss of the ozone layer is also believed to be having a cooling effect . |
| 56 | Alyn and Deeside MP Barry Jones is also believed to be meeting Raytheon 's president Max Bleck . |
| 57 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 58 | Again Dr Borlase is considered to have erred on the side of romance and the Cornish term for mid-summer , ‘ golowan ’ , is now believed to be derived from ‘ gol Jowan ’ , the feast of John . |
| 59 | Secondly , Phillips took no account of the expected rate of inflation in his analysis , a variable which , as we have seen , is now believed to be an important influence on the inflation rate . |
| 60 | The motive for the slaughter is now believed to be robbery . |