Example sentences of "thought [to-vb] [be] [vb pp] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Windsor drawing is thought to have been completed in Rome about 1513 , shortly before Leonardo 's death in 1517 . |
| 2 | ‘ Jardin à Auvers ’ is thought to have been painted in July 1890 during the last month Van Gogh spend at Auvers-sur-Oise with Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet the Christie 's portrait of the doctor , from the collection of Siegfried Kramarsky , was done between 3 and 5 June 1890 . |
| 3 | More than 100 people were thought to have been killed in faction fighting in Natal and in townships around Johannesburg during March , mostly between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha but also involving the security forces . |
| 4 | A Jacobite wine glass , enamelled with a portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie and one of eight thought to have been made in Edinburgh around 1765 , is expected to make £15–20,000 ( $25–35,000 ) . |
| 5 | The throne is thought to have been made in Constantinople and given by Justinian to his viceroy Maximian . |
| 6 | Around them lay the wreckage from the most costly gamble in British history — with a third of the nation 's foreign reserves thought to have been lost in Mr Lamont 's battle to protect sterling . |
| 7 | Nor did he think it would serve any purpose to refer to the lipstick-smeared card , originally written by Dotty and still wired to the stem of the mutilated plant , which , in the heat of the moment and the fitful light of the streetlamps was mistakenly thought to have been dipped in blood . |
| 8 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |