Example sentences of "[noun] believed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inspiring and impressive castle gatehouse , with a trio of towers , and a superb archway , is surmounted by a figure believed to be that of Edward I. Visit the exhibition and nearby Denbigh Friary , Leicester 's Church and St Hilary 's Chapel . |
| 2 | The IRA men parked a car believed to be containing a bomb near to a place where soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment usually assembled before the changing of their guard . |
| 3 | After Thompson 's killer blow , Ipswich midfielder Jason Dozzell performed a celebratory jig on the pitch with a fan believed to be his brother . |
| 4 | The Port Authority policeman on the Ionian island of Kefallinia saw a child believed to be Ben Needham , from Sheffield , South Yorks , being driven in the back of a blue vehicle by two non-Greek women on February 17 . |
| 5 | Annual catches have been estimated at 1500 , from a total population believed to number in the low thousands . |
| 6 | By 1618–19 output had improved sufficiently , it seems , to warrant the building of a water-powered stamp-mill at a site believed to be at the foot of Red Dell or Thriddle and which , despite its altitude , was well placed to serve the mines about there which would now include the newly discovered God 's Blessing at the head of the dell and which like its namesake ( almost ) in Newlands Valley near Keswick , was highly esteemed but mistakenly so . |
| 7 | IPSWICH yesterday signed two players from Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon for a fee believed to be in the region of £200,000 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Ipswich yesterday signed two players from the Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon for a fee believed to be in the region of Pounds 200,000 . |
| 9 | But the French-born widow does personally own a chateau believed to be worth £3 million and has found £900,000 for the legal fees of her sons Ian and Kevin . |
| 10 | AN ENVOY believed to be a Russian double-spy is in hiding in Britain . |
| 11 | Each industry , in consultation with its sponsor department , has determined its own discount rate for appraisal purposes , choosing a rate believed to be consistent with earning a 5 per cent required rate of return ( RRR ) on its investment programme as a whole . |
| 12 | Yorkshire 's chief executive , Chris Hassall , was in Bombay yesterday with a one-year contract believed to be worth about £30,000 for the record-breaking teenager . |
| 13 | That night an unidentified pilot believed to be Plt.Off . |
| 14 | I was asked if I was interested in pictures of Fergie , topless , in the arms of a man believed to be John Bryant ( yes , my contact did n't know how to spell his name ) . |
| 15 | Hours later a man believed to be East End boss Edward Clancy rang detectives accusing the Asian of taking his £38,000 Silver Shadow . |
| 16 | Police have now identified a man believed to be one of Ashiq 's attackers from a video recording and are trying to find him . |
| 17 | David Gray , 33 , a local man believed to be suffering from depression , began shooting on the evening of Nov. 13 , and continued until he was shot dead by police 24 hours later . |
| 18 | A man believed to be a Moslem militant stabbed three Russian tourists in a marketplace at Port Said on Oct. 25 . |
| 19 | Unknown to Merseyside Police , the Samaritans received a telephone call about midday from a man believed to be Mr Ashworth saying he had abandoned his son at a citizen 's advice bureau in Brandon Street , Hamilton , near Glasgow . |
| 20 | Recently , the Syre Beat was sold for a sum believed to be well in excess of £3m , and there was no shortage of bidders ; including , it is said , the heir to Britain 's throne . |
| 21 | The company has been bought by ABB Kraftwerke , of Mannheim , for a sum believed to be around Dm100 million . |
| 22 | MANAGER Chris Turner is part of a three-man syndicate that has bought First Division Peterborough United for a sum believed to be more than £1 million . |
| 23 | A notable feature of the Maya calendar was the era known as the ‘ Long Count ’ , a day-count which began from a conventional starting-point believed to be 10 August 3113 BC according to our calendar . |
| 24 | THE first black to command a US space mission , Air Force Colonel Fred Gregory , led a team of specialists aboard the space shuttle , Discovery , last night , for a secret mission believed to be the deployment of a spy satellite . |
| 25 | In Gladstone Williams the defendant was on a bus when he witnessed what lie believed to be an attack by a large man on another , smaller youth . |
| 26 | But what was suddenly seen as extraordinary was that the supernatural , the miraculous , and certain doctrines were just as present in the layers now believed to be the earliest as they were in the layers believed to be later . |
| 27 | A part or organ in one animal that has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal ’ ( 1843 ) ; ( on late nineteenth century biology ) — ‘ Morphology was studied because it was the material believed to be the most favourable for elucidation of the problems of evolution , and we all thought that in embryology the quintessence of morphological truth was most palpably presented ’ ( 1922 ) ; ( on developmental constraint ) — ‘ But if organisation and the laws of development exclude some lines of variation and favour others , there is certainly nothing supernatural in this , and nothing which is incompatible with natural selection ’ ( 1919 ) . |
| 28 | In spite of serious conservation problems , including losses of paint and straw , it was bought by an American dealer believed to be Celia Asher , who acts as agent for theatrical impresario Riklis , for $580,000 ( £322,200 ) |
| 29 | Also known as the Moirae , three goddesses whom the Greeks and Romans believed to arbitrarily control the birth , life events and death of every man . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State , Dean Acheson , warned the American mission in Seoul on 13 April 1949 that information had been received from a source believed to be reliable to the effect that serious trouble might arise in Korea within two months and that the initiative in these developments would be taken by South Korea . |