Example sentences of "believed to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All statements of fact and information contained or referred to in the Disclosure Letter are true and complete and are not misleading in any respect , all statements of opinion therein have been made after due and careful enquiry and are reasonably believed to be correct and nothing has been omitted from the Disclosure Letter which renders any of such matters misleading .
2 Though the information given is believed to be correct , responsibility for it can not be accepted .
3 Any attempt to generalize about the English village is therefore regarded as an affront : bland uniformity is an attribute of the urban population , but the English village is believed to be resistant to any summary .
4 Germany 's tough waste disposal regulations are believed to be encouraging unscrupulous operators to dump toxic waste in neighbouring countries .
5 Such enzymes do exist — they are known as reverse transcriptases — but they are generally believed to be exclusive to RNA viruses , which need them to transcribe their RNA genes into DNA for replication inside cells .
6 Moreover , Unix System Labs and Novell Inc are believed to be antagonistic and resentful of UI if for no other reason than it stands between them and their OEM customers .
7 Other sources say the reason for the massacre was that the women were believed to be Irish whores , armed to fight .
8 Although her candidacy was dismissed in most quarters as irrelevant , she was potentially the best-funded of the candidates ( although much of her wealth was believed to be inaccessible in frozen Swiss bank accounts ) and had the advantage of the remnants of her husband 's huge patronage network .
9 At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial .
10 At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial .
11 The surplus at Hawker was not detailed yesterday but is believed to be substantial .
12 In addition , the investors will be keen to obtain warranties in respect of the business plan and future financial forecasts along the following lines : ( a ) The Business Plan has been carefully prepared in good faith having regard to the information available and the market conditions prevailing at the time of its preparation and the figures contained therein have been carefully considered and are honestly believed to be reasonable and the Managers have made all reasonable enquiries so as to ascertain all such information and conditions which are relevant to the preparation of the forecasts contained therein .
13 Both are shortened in CD4 ( which does not dimerize ) relative to the classic V domain , but in sCD2 the CC' loop is shortened and the FG loop is greatly lengthened. β- Bulges in the C' and G strands , which introduce a distinctive twist to these strands , are believed to be crucial to V domain dimerization .
14 This sensitive balance is believed to be upset by the release of CFC 's through the atmosphere , into the stratosphere .
15 THE DECISION of Eamonn Barnes , the Irish Republic 's Director of Public Prosecutions , not to bring explosives charges against Patrick Ryan is believed to be due to the refusal of key witnesses to testify against him .
16 The protective effect of HDL against atheroma formation is believed to be due to the HDL 2 subfraction ( Miller et al , 1981 ) .
17 This is believed to be due to the complex organization of their centre-surround mechanisms .
18 The considerably higher relative biological effectiveness or quality factor Q of alpha-particles is believed to be due to the fact that the dose is delivered over short tracks in tissue along which ionization is dense .
19 The impasse in the latest round of negotiations was widely believed to be due to continued French opposition to US proposals for a cut in the volume of EC-subsidised cereal exports .
20 Pregnancy is often associated with two definite gall bladder abnormalities — namely , reduced gallbadder contractility which is believed to be due to raised progesterone concentrations , and the development of biliary sludge .
21 The discrepancy was believed to be due to the fact that a proportion of the PCBs evaporate naturally when exposed to air as part of the treatment process .
22 The decline is believed to be due to a combination of excessively dry summers in 1989 and 1990 , strong winds in late 1990 and a late frost in spring 1991 .
23 Deeper drilling is needed within the Bouguer gravity basins to explore the Carboniferous believed to be present .
24 While this is not the place to explore that research in any detail , it will be helpful to describe briefly the kinds of understanding which are believed to be present in young children by the time they begin to use language .
25 Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported .
26 A family of four is believed to be involved in organizing a spy-ring from their home .
27 Saadi was widely believed to be involved in drug trafficking and corruption , and local public opinion had become increasingly incensed over the alleged involvement of members of the governor 's family in the death in September 1990 of a local teenager .
28 This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) .
29 It is because such interfaces are believed to be dangerous that men act as they do in ritual situations .
30 These same characteristics were found in children with functional faecal retention , a condition common in the school age child , in which physiology of the colon is believed to be normal and constipation results from retentive behaviour by a child who is afraid of painful defecation .
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