Example sentences of "believe to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferranti continued with presentations yesterday to the group of more than 10 companies believed to have expressed an interest in bidding for the company or providing it with equity capital . |
| 2 | A great white shark , believed to have killed a 31-year-old scuba diver on his honeymoon in Australia , was spotted today . |
| 3 | Abductors believed to have killed James |
| 4 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 5 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 6 | I have recently purchased a yearling filly believed to have come from Bodmin Moor . |
| 7 | Earlier police had defused two more motor scooter bombs found in central Bombay 's crowded gold and diamond market , and arrested two other men believed to have sold the motor scooters to the bombers . |
| 8 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus searched the buildings for more than hour But two youths , believed to have started the fire , had disappeared . |
| 9 | Missing , believed to have scarpered with the manager of Boots . |
| 10 | Four people sustained minor injuries and the van burst into flames ; the two people believed to have carried out the attack , however , escaped on a motorbike . |
| 11 | The mother of a three year old boy believed to have dropped a baby girl who was found dead at a playgroup has expressed symapathy for the child 's family . |
| 12 | Another serious problem with purely atmospheric dynamical models is that the hemispheres were out of phase with respect to the orbital precession cycle believed to have triggered the transition from the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM ) deep freeze 11 kyr before present to Holocene warmth . |
| 13 | The Reporter , Gordon Sloan , inferred that the South Ronaldsay community were all involved in the abuse he believed to have taken place there . |
| 14 | It is then asked that the witnesses be examined either in accordance with a given list of questions , which will have been drafted by the applicant party , or regarding certain matters summarised in the letter of request itself ; an example might be ‘ a road traffic accident believed to have taken place in the sight of the witness at such-and-such a place and time ’ . |
| 15 | In the south of the country , four immigrants and an Italian were killed near Naples in late April in a gun battle believed to have taken place when local drug dealers attempted to eliminate competition from a group of illegal African immigrants . |
| 16 | ‘ A major pile-up on the E 35 near Freiburg … reported eight cars involved … heavy casualties … also reported a large refrigerated truck driving north along the southbound lane caused the latest holocaust … the truck driver believed to have died in the pile-up … more details in our next news bulletin … |
| 17 | In this case it is open to question whether the authors of the limited number of extant documents were writing about contemporary events or were recording what they believed to have happened , based on oral tradition . |
| 18 | Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use . |
| 19 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 20 | The death toll of 15,000-30,000 Kurdish and other refugees , and 4,000-16,000 Iraqis killed by disease and starvation since the war , was believed to have risen by a further 30,000 between the completion of the report and its publication . |
| 21 | A light brown Mk II Cortina is believed to have broken down when used by the IRA unit and a black E registration Nissan Micra was seen near the barracks the night before the bombing . |
| 22 | Sterling has been weak throughout the election campaign and , with just two more working days before the vote is counted , fund managers are believed to have decided to close short positions . |
| 23 | Once more it was the terms used by people such as the Iroquois , who were believed to have moved on from this stage , who provided the evidence for its previous existence . |
| 24 | The unemployed fan is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south London two years ago to be closer to Helena , whose films include Lady Jane and Room With A View . |
| 25 | Mr Farquharson , who is unemployed , is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south-east London , to be closer to Miss Bonham-Carter . |
| 26 | More than a billion kilograms of PCBs were probably produced , and a third of this is believed to have leaked into the environment because of careless disposal . |
| 27 | A small Roman settlement is believed to have existed on a spur of land lying between Stamford Brook and Bollo Brook , at which site was discovered a Roman bronze finger ring , also an almost complete , decorated , Samian bowl , dated at about 100 A.D. |
| 28 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 29 | The Russians are believed to have detected this deployment and fired their shells at a high angle over the heads of the Slavs to hit the Austrians ahead . |
| 30 | However , in the past few weeks , Carlton is also believed to have invited Bainsfair Sharkey Trott and Ogilvy & Mather to pitch for the account . |