Sentence examples for it was sometimes believed from inspiring English sources

She popularized the sexually charged black dance the shimmy (it was sometimes believed she had invented it).

It was sometimes believed, however, that he accidentally found excellence while seeking mere novelty; the poet Ezra Pound remarked (in Guide to Kulchur [1938]) that "Lorimer honestly didn't know that there ever had been a civilization".

Outdoor work was considered healthier than work in enclosed and smoky mines and factories, and it was sometimes believed that women who had worked as bal maidens from a young age were healthier than they would otherwise have been.

For example, some MTCs exclude placebo or no treatment from consideration because it is sometimes believed that placebo trials vary over time or are set in favourable conditions to appease regulatory authorities.

It is sometimes believed that language is housed in the left or dominant hemisphere, at least in most right-handed subjects, and that the other, the right hemisphere not dominant for language, does not in any way contribute to language in these individuals.

A few complained of their flesh being sore to touch… the disease was sometimes believed to be a rheumatism.

Rich or powerful people are sometimes believed to be witches or to have paid witches to bring them success, to protect them and to harm their rivals.This can be disconcerting for modern westerners.

"[N]either are the poor as poor as conventional statistics make out, nor the relatively rich quite as well off as is sometimes believed," says the ICP study.That may also be true within countries.

Prevotella are sometimes believed to work in conjunction with the cellulolytic species Fibrobacter succinogenes in utilizing hemicellulose (Osborne and Dehority 1989).

Single-tree selection cutting is sometimes believed to be similar to the natural gap disturbance regime of hardwood forests, but few studies have specifically compared the compositional and structural characteristics of old-growth hardwood stands, undergoing natural gap dynamics and hardwood stands previously subjected to partial cuts.

The share of people who list individual success as a primary driver lags far behind a sign that development hasn't eroded traditional values as much as is sometimes believed in China.