Example sentences of "[pers pn] was believed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her identity was unknown , but she was believed to be the wife of an El Al employee working in Holland . |
| 2 | In the past it was believed to be closely related to the shaggy , hardy Highland . |
| 3 | It was a good question , and suggested strongly that the Argyll interest was less powerful than it was believed to be by the community at large . |
| 4 | The company has been preparing to go public , a process the suit could have adversely affected , while at the same time it was believed to be object of some takeover desires by Unix System Laboratories ( UX No 396 ) . |
| 5 | It was believed to be based at Pyongyang and to comprise approximately 800 personnel and 36 Soviet trainers plus obsolete Japanese planes . |
| 6 | Highly aggressive in tone and content , the authenticity of the memorial has yet to be proved , but it was widely circulated in China , where it was believed to be genuine , especially as the policies of the 1930s seemed to be fully in accordance with it . |
| 7 | Since it was believed to be worth over £13,000 it was an amazing bargain , but one which was available only to a purchaser with immense cash reserves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While this figure represented only 46.15 per cent of total export earnings as against 52.23 per cent in 1989 , it was believed to be linked to a rise in the export of machinery and transport equipment which accounted for 32.3 per cent of total export earnings . |
| 10 | It was believed to be a repeat of an earlier attempt in 1991 to seal off the Jaffna peninsula , the LTTE 's principal base [ see also pp. 38392 ; 38439 ] . |
| 11 | He was believed to be pro-French , and therefore ‘ liberal ’ . |
| 12 | He was believed to be a supporter of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) which campaigned for political reform . |
| 13 | He was believed to be concentrating , however , on ( i ) guarantees of no military attack on Iraq in the event of its compliance , to be backed up by a UN peacekeeping force and arrangements under which the US and allied forces would withdraw from the region ; ( ii ) suggestions for some form of political expression for Kuwaitis after the withdrawal of the al-Sabah regime ; and ( iii ) the understanding that an international conference would discuss the Palestinian issue at the earliest convenient time . |
| 14 | Qiao Shi , the party security chief , was described by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 29 as " enigmatic " and " the potential swing vote " ; he was believed to be a reformer , but was a protegé of the conservative party elder Peng Zhen . |
| 15 | And the police say he was believed to be an associate of Keith Hanger . |