Example sentences of "[noun prp] be believed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal are believed to be watching the situation closely and are set to make their move as soon as Sampdoria give them the signal . |
| 2 | Kemptner and Strubig were believed to be held by the Hamadei family , two members of which were serving prison sentences in Germany for terrorist related crimes . |
| 3 | Midland shares were the most actively traded on the stock market and fell 7 to 365p on announcement of the all-paper terms compared with the 400p which Lloyds is believed to be prepared to pay . |
| 4 | Gibbons is believed to be planning a realignment of portfolios , elevating the environment and lowering the life sciences in the OSTP hierarchy , but only one of his choices for the four vacant associate directorships has as yet been cleared by the White House and nominated by the president . |
| 5 | A mutilated body found in Portugal is believed to be that of a man missing from his home in Oxfordshire for a month . |
| 6 | IBM is believed to be working on a much less radical plan to copy General Motors Corp and issue different classes of common shares , each standing pari passu all the others in the event of a break-up , but each paying dividends that were tied to the performance of a single IBM unit , be it AdStar , Application Business Systems or Pennant Systems . |
| 7 | Core to the strategy is the ability to use multiple operating systems and IBM is believed to be developing a new version of AIX/ESA that will run on both the RS/6000 workstations and highly-parallel servers . |
| 8 | DEC wo n't get cozy with COSE until it sorts out the all-important ‘ process ’ of how things work and get selected , something COSE is believed to be finalising . |
| 9 | DEC wo n't get cozy with COSE until it sorts out the all-important ‘ process ’ of how things work and get selected , something COSE is believed to be finalising . |
| 10 | Ardiles is believed to be top of Spurs chairman Alan Sugar 's wanted list to take over as manager and is expected to fly back from a holiday in Argentina to discuss a possible move later this week . |
| 11 | He was replaced by Oscar Orbos , the Transport and Communications Secretary , whom Aquino was believed to be cultivating as a possible presidential successor on the expiry of her current term of office in 1992 . |
| 12 | The final stages of negotiation over the sale of Cummins ' 185,000 sq ft engine factory on Yarm Road are believed to be imminent . |
| 13 | Owners of rare pets in Thailand are believed to be killing them off in order to escape prosecution under new legislation which forbids the collection of endangered species . |
| 14 | Within the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick there existed Boston House in the Manor of Boston , with a varied history over many hundreds of years ; also Gunnersbury House — the name Gunnersbury is believed to be derived from Gunilda or Gunyld , a niece of King Canute , who had a house or castle there — which led to the Manor of that area being called ‘ Gunnersbury ’ by the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | On 30 August 1188 the Angevin army crossed the border near Pacy-sur-Eure and marched towards Mantes , where Philip was believed to be staying . |
| 16 | China was believed to be providing technological support for building nuclear weapons to India , Iran , North Korea , Pakistan and possibly Algeria , and had also recently sold M-9 medium-range missiles to Syria and M-11 short-range missiles to Pakistan . |
| 17 | I pointed out that Christianity had always stressed the idea of faith history ( having got it from the Jews ) and that Jesus was believed to be the intervention of God in human history . |
| 18 | Purugganan was believed to be a member of a newer , more hardline underground group , known as the Young Officers Union ( YOU ) . |
| 19 | The families of republican murderer Anna Moore and loyalist killer Bobby Corry are believed to be bitterly divided over their controversial decision to wed . |
| 20 | Within this context , however , Coot are believed to be fairly common . |
| 21 | Jack is believed to be about nine months old but is painfully small because of constant neglect , said Mrs Taylor . |
| 22 | A formidable frontage — the 20mm protruding from Roundtrip Jack is believed to be a unique installation . |
| 23 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine is believed to be sounding out potential US support for the strategy . |
| 24 | AN unemployed resource centre in Cleveland is believed to be in financial difficulties . |
| 25 | ( Why this word was specially chosen has been the subject of scholarly controversy ; the probable answer is that the Christian who died for Christ was believed to be uniquely united with his crucified Master , thereby linking the concept of witness with sacrificial dying ; but in martyrdom the cause is primary , the dying secondary . ) |
| 26 | All but the first of these are characteristics of many less highly evolved haplochromines ( Mbuna are believed to be highly specialised descendants of a haplochromine ancestor ) , eg Astatotilapia . |
| 27 | The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign . |
| 28 | However , right now USL is believed to be back on the road to going public . |
| 29 | USL is believed to be near to an unprecedented agreement with Apple for the Macintosh interface . |
| 30 | USL is believed to be interested in aligning itself more closely with Novell to strengthen its forces for the war against Microsoft Corp 's NT , a herculean effort AT&T may not be as willing to put its back into . |