Example sentences of "it be believed that [det] " in BNC.

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1 The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia .
2 It is believed that all but two committees have carried out some form of investigation based on information provided in the 1991 series of reports .
3 It is believed that each of the twenty amino acids is represented in DNA code by a particular sequence of three bases .
4 It is believed that many dischargers , particularly industrialists , have such control over their manufacturing and treatment processes that they are able to alter the quality and quantity of their effluents virtually at will , as economic considerations dictate .
5 The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession .
6 It is believed that these clothes have been taken to Malta for comparison with items purchased there which were found in the suitcase containing the bomb .
7 It is believed that these blotched tabbies arose first in Britain , in the Elizabethan era .
8 It is believed that some vines can live as long as five hundred years although such a plant would yield a negligible crop of grapes .
9 Of course it is believed that some will give way to others .
10 In the city of Rome it is believed that some 40,000 insulae lined the streets and squares .
11 Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years .
12 And it is believed that more than two-thirds of the entire population of seven million needs food desperately .
13 Other factors which influence the perception of risk include the degree of trust in the organisation ; familiarity and understanding of the technology ; the extent of involvement in the decision making process ; whether it is believed that more could be done to reduce risk ; comparisons with accepted risks ; and — last but not least — the fairness in the distribution of the risks and benefits .
14 It is believed that this giant carp is still within the lake , and will not be caught until Frederick reigns again .
15 When ice melts it is believed that this structure is largely maintained but that the spaces become partly filled , possibly by unbonded water molecules which are small enough to fit inside them , or are reduced in size by bending and reorganization of the hydrogen bonds .
16 Despite the presence of gold and minor base-metal sulphides in the drillcore from this zone , it is believed that this is not the main source of gold and there may be a more fertile source elsewhere in the area .
17 In 1972 the number of houses used as second homes in Britain as a whole was estimated at 372000 , but it is believed that this number has declined in recent years due to the inflation in house prices since that date .
18 It is believed that this force is carried by another spin-I particle , called the gluon , which interacts only with itself and with the quarks .
19 It is believed that this incident may be connected with the riots yesterday in Deptford . ’
20 It is believed that this surname is used by her mother to divert attention from her .
21 It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China .
22 One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science .
23 Even though these kinds of ’ fishing raids ’ take place in such factories at this time of the year , it is believed that this particular raid has marked the beginning of a new home office policy .
24 It is believed that this was Hadrian 's retreat , where he went to be quiet and enjoy his drawing , writing and music-making .
25 The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) .
26 But it is believed that several dozen members of the last Parliament are still members .
27 It was believed that such measures would stimulate industry and increase employment in the short-term until Britain 's economic markets were restored by the revival of world trade and increasing cost-effective output :
28 Soon afterwards it was believed that such a planet had been discovered in transit across the Sun .
29 It was believed that all of these were produced by sexual arousal so the surgical removal of the clitoris was a sure cure for the disease .
30 It was believed that many of the functions of Clark Field — including the provision of transit facilities for special operations forces — were to be transferred to the Cubi Point Naval Air Station at Subic Bay .
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