Example sentences of "[be] believed to be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avon Health 89-90 is believed to be the only local guide in the country to both orthodox and complementary health . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd — who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters . |
| 9 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 10 | As with the area of homosexual conduct , the origin of public concern about prostitution lay , not in some liberal or permissive attitude of tolerance , but in a ‘ moral panic ’ over what was believed to be the increasing visibility of a form of deviant behaviour , this time over the increasing visibility of prostitutes and prostitution . |
| 11 | ‘ Ague ’ was malaria , meaning literally ‘ bad air ’ , the marshy miasma which , until the discovery of the malarial mosquito in 1880 , was believed to be the main cause of the disease . |
| 12 | At first it was thought that the nucleus of the atom was made up of electrons and different numbers of a positively charged particle called the proton , from the Greek word meaning " first , " because it was believed to be the fundamental unit from which matter was made . |