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

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1 The specimen is believed to be a rough ground record for the south west .
2 The short session on the mid-tide paid dividends for the fish is believed to be a rough ground record for the south west .
3 Kolymba is believed to be a Minoan dock basin , and it may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here .
4 Andrea Glass , who is believed to be a close friend of Iain Chalmers , is the new treasurer .
5 Since the α subunit is believed to be a prime target for pathogenic autoantibodies in the neuromuscular autoimmune disease MG ( 2 ) , differential expression of the variants may have clinical implications .
6 The system is believed to be a major innovation and an answer to a difficult and potentially costly problem within the industry .
7 As well as increasing anxiety , irritability and mood changes , the menopause saps memory and concentration , causes physical pain in the joints and muscles , and , if improperly treated , is believed to be a significant factor in the incidence of osteoporosis or ‘ brittle bone ’ disease in later life .
8 One of the deals , being kept under wraps until an official announcement in a few weeks , is believed to be a lucrative shirt sponsorship package — but chairman Wallace Mercer is refusing to say if it involves current sponsor Strongbow .
9 Had that proposal been acted on , McKusick , CSRG senior programmer and past president of Usenix , would have found himself in another conflict of interests since he is believed to be a secret a director of BSDI .
10 Freddie is believed to be a common tree frog from the West Indies .
11 A formidable frontage — the 20mm protruding from Roundtrip Jack is believed to be a unique installation .
12 Weight-saving by the increased use of aluminium for engine and suspension components is believed to be a high priority .
13 The target is believed to be a privately-owned Surrey business which is a supplier of most aluminimum products to the aerospace and defence sectors .
14 Avon Health 89-90 is believed to be the only local guide in the country to both orthodox and complementary health .
15 Mr Hinks became a member of the council of the Law Society , which was quite an accolade for the firm , and he is believed to be the only Darlington solicitor to be honoured in this way .
16 Gordon Ackerman , headmaster of a primary school which is believed to be the only one in Scotland still allowing corporal punishment , said this was available as the ultimate stage of disciplinary action , if the parents agreed .
17 Nearly one in five of all trees in the European Community are severely damaged by the effects of drought and pollution ; acid rain is believed to be the major cause of the damage .
18 Likewise theological truth is held to exist in a sphere of its own , unaffected by scientific discoveries or knowledge which we now have which clashes with what is believed to be the biblical revelation .
19 This results in the inability of the protein to hydrolyse bound GTP to GDP , and since GTP-ras is believed to be the active form of the protein this many deliver a continual signal to the cell to divide .
20 For several reasons 140k is believed to be the functional counterpart of Vmw175 ; HSV-1 mutants with lesions in Vmw175 can be complemented by either transfected plasmids or transformed cell lines which express VZV 140k ( 11,12 ) and moreover a recombinant HSV-1 virus ( HSV-140 ) with both copies of the Vmw175 coding sequences replaced by the homologous gene 71 ORF is viable in tissue culture ( 13 ) .
21 The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd — who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters .
22 He is believed to be an innocent victim of a clean-up campaign which included the demolition of buildings .
23 Cholesterol nucleation is preceded by vesicle aggregation and fusion , and is believed to be an initial step in the formation of cholesterol gall stones .
24 Marketing is believed to be an important determinant of industrial competitiveness .
25 Furthermore , lipid peroxidation mediated by oxygen free radicals is believed to be an important cause of destruction and damage to cell membranes , because polyunsaturated fatty acids of the cellular membranes are degraded by the lipid peroxidation with consequent disruption of membrane integrity .
26 Serotonin ( 5 hydroxytryptamine , 5HT ) is believed to be an important humoral mediator of carcinoid diarrhoea .
27 The worsening crisis in Poland during 1980 and 1981 , and what was believed to be a Soviet role in the imposition of martial law in December 1981 , made matters worse ; so too did Cuban intervention in Angola , and US support for the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua .
28 The suspected assassin , José Sales , who was arrested later , was believed to be a professional gunman hired by local landowners who had been blamed for the murder in 1985 of his predecessor Joao Canuto .
29 The reshuffle was believed to be a delayed reaction to the events of mid-1989 , with promotions being secured by those who played a role in the military crackdown on student demonstrators .
30 The result of the tests was to illustrate that the failure of the right stabiliser on G-BEBP occurred because of an inherent inability of what was believed to be a fail-safe structure to carry the flight loads subsequent to the fracture of the rear spar top chord ( a primary load bearing structure ) ; this was a feature of the basic design and construction rather than some factor specific to G-BEBP .
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