Example sentences of "[be] not believed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many children are unable to tell of their abuse , and some who do are not believed — it may be that abuse is more widespread than currently thought , whilst those families already under supervision by the social services for other difficulties are not more likely to abuse , but are simply more likely to be found . |
| 2 | The killings are not believed to be terrorist-related . |
| 3 | Fortunately , because of his seemingly impeccable record with MI6 , they were not believed . |
| 4 | Fares were low , not only because passengers from the lower orders were not believed to require or deserve much better accommodation than cattle and fortunately needed less space , or even because of improvements in communications , but for economic reasons . |
| 5 | Every one of these parents can recount stories of being not believed , not looked at , not spoken to : that is what dead people experience , if the dead have experiences . |
| 6 | BAe 's stockbroker , Hoare Govett , was in the market again yesterday but is not believed to have added significantly to the stake . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As myths go , the Leavis myth was widely successful : but then what teacher , when he tells the young that he has been ill-treated by the world for his opinions , is not believed ? |
| 9 | The acquiring company is not believed to have a track record in Unix . |
| 10 | It being of no use for the master to say that the merchandise belongs to the owner of the ship because he can not be believed upon his word ; and he is not believed on his word when he declares that the ship belongs to the bourgeois and that there is no point to the charter party for the above stated reasons . |
| 11 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 12 | It 's thought the body is that of a man , but it 's not believed to have been mutilated in any way . |
| 13 | The armed group was not believed to be connected with the Jungle Commando guerrilla group which has been fighting the Suriname Government on and off since 1986 , he said . |
| 14 | He was not believed . |
| 15 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 16 | Marc Bazin , the leader of the MIDH , who was a liberal economist and former Finance Minister and World Bank official , and who was considered by most observers to be the most likely candidate to win fair and free presidential elections , was not believed to have been amongst those detained . |
| 17 | Although the UK government had insisted that full diplomatic relations would only be resumed after the withdrawal of the death sentence on Rushdie and the release of the British businessman Roger Cooper , imprisoned in Iran without trial since December 1985 [ see p. 35544 ] , the latest move was not believed to have involved any formal undertaking on either of these issues by the Iranian government . |
| 18 | The organism was not believed to be a clinical problem . |
| 19 | The spokesman said the man was taken to the Darlington Memorial Hospital , where his condition was not believed to be serious . |