Example sentences of "believed to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But his company is believed to be close to appointing advisors for a flotation in New York . |
| 32 | In some of these areas , progress had been made but agreement was believed to be conditional on the outcome of the dispute over agricultural trade . |
| 33 | Stephen Chamberlain is believed to be depressed after splitting up with his girlfriend . |
| 34 | Police say they are concerned for Kathryn Mary Baxter who is believed to be depressed following the recent break-up of her relationship with a boyfriend . |
| 35 | Highly aggressive in tone and content , the authenticity of the memorial has yet to be proved , but it was widely circulated in China , where it was believed to be genuine , especially as the policies of the 1930s seemed to be fully in accordance with it . |
| 36 | That leaves difficult cases where an expert has reached a decision which is widely believed to be incorrect but can not be challenged . |
| 37 | This is believed to be harmless unlike the use of X-rays which could be damaging . |
| 38 | ( The flowers in the hat are believed to be real ! ) |
| 39 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 40 | The spokesman said the man was taken to the Darlington Memorial Hospital , where his condition was not believed to be serious . |
| 41 | Several directors are believed to be unhappy that he has kept details of the negotiations from them . |
| 42 | Indonesia had no claim to any of the islands , which were believed to be rich in oil . |
| 43 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 44 | Although the risk to humans was believed to be remote , manufacturers reduced DEHA in the film . |
| 45 | Her relationship with Queen Elizabeth II was believed to be frosty and her regard for the Commonwealth , now dominated by black- and brown-skinned leaders from Africa and Asia , slight . |
| 46 | The population is believed to be similar to Darlington 's and there is a technical college devoted to metal work . |
| 47 | Even then , though , the intervention of a great man was believed to be necessary , and ability to pay was not alone sufficient . |
| 48 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | TENS OF thousands of phantom azalea bushes and geraniums are believed to be alive and growing in the gardens of Northern Ireland after the discovery of alleged false accounting . |
| 51 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 52 | In 1988 , in the Tram Chim crane reserve near the Cambodia corder in southern Vietnam , Vo Quy and his Wetland and Waterbird Working Group counted more than 1,000 eastern sarus cranes , a bird recently believed to be extinct throughout Southeast Asia , except in its probably breeding grounds in Cambodia . |
| 53 | Institutional investors who include Schroders , Prudential and Phillips & Drew Fund Management are believed to be opposed to a rights issue . |
| 54 | Grand Metropolitan , which is believed to be keen to sell its extensive brewing interests , came to life in late trading , jumping 21p to 599p as the story flowed that Sir James Goldsmith and friends were stake-building . |
| 55 | Currently , the Navy runs half its school at Aldershot and the other half at Devonport and is believed to be keen , for financial reasons if nothing else , to re-locate on to one site . |
| 56 | Tranmere manager John King is believed to be keen to bring the utility man to Prenton Park . |
| 57 | In addition , Peter Wood , who founded Direct Line and is a director of Royal Bank , is believed to be keen to see the company floated on the stock market . |
| 58 | More generally in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Europe , children , livestock , milk and crops were believed to be vulnerable to the witchcraft of jealous neighbours . |
| 59 | He recruited from the ancient universities , and many of his agents were believed to be Russian sympathizers . |
| 60 | Partnerships between education and business are generally believed to be good , useful and worthwhile . |