Example sentences of "be thought to have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 2 | Twelve people are thought to have been killed and 20 wounded since Thursday , including two militiamen killed by Syrian troops yesterday . |
| 3 | The earliest cetaceans are thought to have been related to primitive ungulates or hoofed mammals , who returned to the sea some 50 million years ago . |
| 4 | Venezia are thought to have been altered slightly . |
| 5 | Although the Society of Gardeners gave their name to the Catalogus Plantarum ( Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs both Exotick and Domestic that are Hardy enough to Bear the Cold of our Climate in the Open Air and are Propagated for Sale in the Gardens near London ) 1730 , Philip Miller and Thomas Fairchild are thought to have been its chief promoters . |
| 6 | In Sweden , British species such as dog rose , cowslip and ladies ' bedstraw are thought to have been lost from polluted woods , where the nitrogen-loving nettle and acid-tolerant wood sorrel now occur . |
| 7 | The figures are thought to have been adapted from a cycle of statues made by the sculptor Lysippus for a sanctuary at Alezia ( Acarnania , Greece ) in the 4th century BC and later brought to Rome . |
| 8 | In Europe the only flows of any consequence occur on small volcanic islands in the Mediterranean , the most famous of all being those on the island of Lipari , which are thought to have been erupted about 1,400 years ago . |
| 9 | This rich group of textiles were made by the Banjara gypsies of India , whose predecessors are thought to have been the world 's original gypsy stock . |
| 10 | They are thought to have been attached to wooden figures to carry a dead king 's crown in ceremonies expressing the continuity of royal office . |
| 11 | Since that time , more than 20,000 babies are thought to have been born as a result of this technique . |
| 12 | Sick cattle or children are thought to have been harmed by a Dark Elf 's arrow , as Collins wrote : |
| 13 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 14 | The first probably had long snouts and are thought to have been the ancestors of the lemurs , now only found in Madagascar , and of the lorises that today live in the forests of the Far East . |
| 15 | Most of these are thought to have been Slavs , whom the retreating Austrians had stationed in the rear to sustain the impact of Russian cavalry attacks . |
| 16 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 17 | The level of the roddons has probably been accentuated by the oxidation and consequent lowering of the level of the peat on either side , but the roddons are thought to have been always higher than the surrounding peat fen ( Godwin , 1938 ) . |
| 18 | Do you know that you are thought to have been imprisoned for debt ? ’ |
| 19 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |
| 20 | In Britain umbrellas are thought to have been first used to protect people from the rain in Bath in the 1660s . |
| 21 | At least 100,000 fish are thought to have been killed , along with the insects and plants on which they depend . |
| 22 | Lobbying by groups such as Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature are thought to have been instrumental in the change . |
| 23 | Many are thought to have been buried at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 26 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 27 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 28 | They are thought to have been bought in the area of Coppull , near Chorley , where the couple met their deaths after being lured from their flat in Jericho Farm Walk , Aigburth , Liverpool , on April 27 . |
| 29 | Marbles fired from a catapult are thought to have been responsible . |
| 30 | All three are thought to have been working as bouncers . |