Example sentences of "were believe to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those arrested were released last night , but most were believed to be still in custody at RUC interrogation centres in Belfast and Armagh , held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , the Official Secrets Act and common law . |
| 2 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 3 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 4 | Britain and two were believed to be new to science . |
| 5 | The main difference between the ‘ Oracles ’ and the Created God is that the former were believed to be of ‘ divine ’ origin , whereas the latter would be of mankind 's own creation , and therefore under human control . |
| 6 | The victims were believed to be a Lancashire textile boss and three friends . |
| 7 | Her vast deposits were in 1880 still largely unexplored ; those of Silesia alone were believed to be even greater than the huge fields already opened in Great Britain . |
| 8 | ‘ The Moltkean Revolution ’ , as it has been called , a led to the adoption everywhere in continental Europe of what were believed to be the secrets of its success — compulsory military service to provide a short-service army with a large trained reserve , and the creation of a permanent , highly-trained general staff . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Each had taken their cue , at some time or other , from the behaviours that were believed to be appropriate , and had developed to the point where they were thoroughly dysfunctional . |
| 11 | At the time , they were believed to be the bones of James . |
| 12 | These rocks , now thought to be about 650 million years old , were believed to be completely unfossiliferous . |
| 13 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 14 | The proposals were believed to be ‘ an attempt to cash limit a demand led service which will damage the doctor/patient relationship and be detrimental to patient care . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle . |
| 16 | Other sources say the reason for the massacre was that the women were believed to be Irish whores , armed to fight . |
| 17 | The 13th reform were believed to be sufficient to allow locos to work over the bridge and it is understood that 37/4 's will not be allowed over . |
| 18 | The first group of officers arrested were believed to be linked with the fundamentalist Hizb-i-Islami mujaheddin group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . |
| 19 | These countries were believed to be Romania and Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | These were believed to be an increase in the Amir 's constitutional powers , to allow him to veto National Assembly decisions , and a reduction in immunity for Assembly members . |
| 21 | At least 200 people were believed to be missing after a mudslide on Feb. 27 , 1990 , buried the village of San Miguel de Río Mayo in the northern jungle , 800 km north of Lima , following heavy rains . |
| 22 | During 1989 and early 1990 , in addition to the May and September 1989 attacks listed above ( both of which were believed to be connected with the Koskotas affair and with the November 17 Revolutionary Organization ) there were a number of small bomb attacks against cars and buildings , which caused material damage and sometimes injury but no deaths . |
| 23 | By Sept. 20 six had been arrested , including deputy speaker Ilijaz Ramajli ; of the remainder , it was reported on Sept. 24 that one had committed suicide , and that the rest were believed to be in hiding outside Kosovo . |
| 24 | Security sources said that artillery units in the security zone also shelled Lebanese villages 15 km from the Israeli border , in the Iqilm and Toufah areas , where pro-Iranian Moslem fundamentalists were believed to be preparing to infiltrate the security zone ; it was reported that Palestinians had set up multibarrel rocket-launchers aimed at Israel there . |
| 25 | The Sihanoukists and the KPNLF in particular were believed to be short of artillery shells . |
| 26 | A Sierra Leonean dissident leader , Foday Sankoh and his followers were believed to be siding with the Liberian guerrillas loyal to Charles Taylor [ see also this page ] with the shared aim of seizing control of mineral-rich areas close to the Liberian border around the towns of Pujehun , Kenema , Segbwema and Bo . |
| 27 | Indonesia had no claim to any of the islands , which were believed to be rich in oil . |
| 28 | These attacks were believed to be the work of the military wing ( HOS ) of the right-wing Croatian Party of Justice ( HSP ) , operating outside the control of the Croatian authorities . |
| 29 | The deposits , whose discovery was announced by Command Petroleum on April 2 , 1991 , were believed to be situated close to the proposed route of a 260-km pipeline currently under construction to transport Kutubu oil to the Gulf of Papua . |
| 30 | Kemptner and Strubig were believed to be held by the Hamadei family , two members of which were serving prison sentences in Germany for terrorist related crimes . |