Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] think to be [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Apparently , Halsbury then ‘ conceived the idea that the case should be re-argued before an enlarged body of Law Lords and that , in addition , the House should adopt once more the practice of summoning the High Court judges to advise ’ , a practice generally thought to be obsolete . |
2 | This is the name given to rapid loss of the TL signal from that part of the glow curve normally thought to be stable . |
3 | , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia . |
4 | We build our description on a survey of biographical and autobiographical publications of a number of well-known leaders generally thought to be visionary , including Lee Iacocca of Chrysler , Jan Carlzon of SAS , Edwin Land of Polaroid , René Lévesque of the Parti Quebécois , and Steven Jobs , formerly of Apple Computer . |
5 | Over the past decade it has become accepted that some of the fossils formerly thought to be human ancestors are in fact on the line leading to the orang-utan . |