Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] believed that " in BNC.

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1 ( 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 ;
2 The International M & A Network should be used where it is believed that the opportunity has international attractions .
3 Unidentified groups of rioters attacked and set on fire the city police headquarters , where it was believed that some of those arrested earlier in University Square were being held .
4 The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century .
5 N.G. Attenborough and his crew were killed , although it was believed that they had flown into a balloon barrage .
6 When the Almoravid general sent a token force of twenty mounted warriors to the gates of the city , their arrival caused such consternation that it was believed that there were actually 500 or more .
7 Before the dropping of the atomic bombs , the Americans had feared that the Russians would not honour their pledge to join the war against the Japanese , and it is believed that the Allied forces were held back in Europe , so that the Russian troops could advance through the eastern part of Europe into Czechoslovakia .
8 They modernised the mill and it is believed that it became the first in Britain to make paper from wood , ie : the first Natron-cellulose pulp mill in Europe .
9 Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years .
10 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 .
11 The Bank of England has acted quickly to take advantage of the demand and it is believed that about one third of the 1992/93 funding programme has already been completed .
12 And it is believed that Hirst may decide to seek advice over his future in the coming week .
13 And it is believed that more than two-thirds of the entire population of seven million needs food desperately .
14 In 1963 , in B.R. days , it received a full overhaul and it is believed that a new front tube plate was fitted .
15 Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) .
16 In Victorian England unpleasant odours were synonymous with disease and it was believed that pleasant odours could neutralize them .
17 He could only get temporary relief from certain drugs and it was believed that the same drug contributed to the hardening of the liver which led to his death .
18 The six months ' stock of parts was exhausted and it was believed that 10 to 15 per cent of the weapons and between 30 and 35 per cent of vehicles were unserviceable .
19 In November 1 172 he had met his father-in-law on the Norman border and it was believed that Louis VII had urged him to demand what was rightfully his .
20 It did not purport to deal with all the subject matter of the field and it was believed that :
21 Aurangzeb had been struck down with a fever , and it was believed that he was beyond recovery .
22 The Collective State Presidency held , technically , the post of C.-in-C. of the armed forces , and it was believed that Milosevic was counting on forcing the army to intervene , a development which he would expect to bolster his own flagging domestic support .
23 Only if it is believed that independence is a function of employment income can the idea of increased dependency be automatically supported .
24 Thus , if it is believed that the government is in fact the state , it may also be believed that the assumption of governmental power is equivalent to the acquisition of state power .
25 Because mathematical skills are perceived as being easy to define and to recognise , and because such skills are perceived to be relevant , schools may be attacked if it is believed that they are not teaching such skills effectively .
26 But it is believed that between 50,000 and 100,000 people in this country , who are free of symptoms are likely to be carrying the virus .
27 But it is believed that a takeover of Paribas by a foreign entity seems politically improbable .
28 But it is believed that several dozen members of the last Parliament are still members .
29 The dolphins ' opinion of Miss Goddard was not recorded but it is believed that they would be unlikely to demur from her conclusion .
30 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 ) .
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