Example sentences of "it is believed that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) .
2 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 .
3 It was directed at ministers and social workers , and it is believed that one Orkney social worker was invited to that seminar , as well as a Baptist minister who had helped to organise the summer camp on Rousay .
4 The police investigation is continuing , but it is believed that two plastic barrels containing some 300 lb of home-made explosive were placed beside the roadside hedge and detonated by command wire from a vantage point overlooking the scene .
5 Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them .
6 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 .
7 ( b ) alternative , as in the cases of the provision of alternative facilities for the production , exhibition or publication of certain kinds of work , where it is believed that existing institutions exclude or tend to exclude these ;
8 It is believed that substantial numbers of ‘ additional ’ known drug users may have been ‘ missed ’ only in the case of GPs ( to whom 124 problem drug users were known exclusively in the first survey ) .
9 It is believed that similar reserves exist along the coast .
10 It is believed that endogenous antigens are generally degraded in the cytosol , the resulting peptides being translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum where they bind to MHC class I molecules .
11 With such large corpora it is believed that improved language models may be created .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It is believed that 96 followers of Koresh , including 17 children , remain inside the compound .
15 No Monday last , when the designs were first displayed to the public , it is believed that 10,000 persons visited the exhibition ; on Tuesday , when the crowd was somewhat less , 7,000 were present ; and on Wednesday the numbers again reached to 10,000 .
16 It is believed that this surname is used by her mother to divert attention from her .
17 It is believed that this incident may be connected with the riots yesterday in Deptford . ’
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science .
21 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 .
22 It is believed that intensive enforcement of drink driving legislation acts as a highly effective preventive measure and that the scope for further casualty reductions in drink related accidents is 10% .
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