Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [adv] believe that " in BNC.

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1 It is also generally believed that people with cancer should not be massaged because cancer cells may start to spread to the rest of the body via the lymphatic system .
2 My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise .
3 But it is still widely believed that it was a game which was avidly played at Poitiers whenever Marie , her chaplain Andrew , and Chrétien de Troyes came to visit Eleanor .
4 It is now widely believed that no British government is able to govern without the tacit support of the trade union movement .
5 It was also generally believed that , while good works could never of themselves merit salvation , the leading of a saintly life was both a consequence and a sign of one 's elect status .
6 It was also widely believed that he would have become the laibon after his father 's death .
7 It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ?
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