Example sentences of "[be] think to [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men are thought to be about 19-years-old . |
| 2 | Other northern Malawians arrested between February and May 1989 are thought to be among those set free . |
| 3 | The activity posited by Brentano , secondly , is common not only to seeing and other perception , thinking in the sense of deliberating or judging , and also remembering , intending , and deciding , all of which are ordinarily thought to be in different ways active , but also pain and other sensations , dreaming , experiencing an emotion , and being subject to a mood , all of which are thought to be in different ways passive . |
| 4 | Although it is too early to assess the full effects , some of the rich shellfish and oyster beds offshore are thought to be in some danger . |
| 5 | Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints . |
| 6 | There is a further indication that this is the right solution ; one of the few archaeological finds to have come from the battlefield at Vézeronce is a fine helmet , which has been thought to be of Ostrogothic workmanship . |
| 7 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 8 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 9 | Five paintings by a mass murderer , once withdrawn from auction because they were thought to be in bad taste , have been bought by a collector . |
| 10 | Mr Jones is thought to be aged 19 and to live locally . |
| 11 | All too often , academic freedom is thought to be of such a form that its possession by one group implies its denial to another group . |
| 12 | The latter figure is thought to be between 63,000 and 65,000 . |
| 13 | When taken together with walking , cycling is thought to be between ten and forty times as energy efficient , as motorised transport ( Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 14 | Although Mr Neubert would not say how much the three Swan Hunter Type 23s will cost , it is thought to be about three-quarters the price of recently built Type 22 frigates , which have a crew of 240 as against 170 for the Duke class . |
| 15 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1bn by 1997/98 . |
| 16 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1,000m by 1997-98 . |
| 17 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 18 | Since Croydon Corporation 's tramway system was leased to the B.E.T. , the fact that the Penge services and the Mitcham/Sutton services would be separated by about two miles of Corporation owned track was thought to be of little consequence and it was intended to work the whole system as one with lengthy through services , under the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ fleet name . |
| 19 | A rather unspectacular brown Acrocephalus warbler , it was thought to be in imminent danger of following the dodo into extinction until the ICBP bought the island and instituted a programme of saving and increasing its mangrove breeding habitat . |