Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] think [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the Home Office research shown that the majority of offences within reported crime were thought to be committed by people on probation , under SSD supervision , or on community programmes , one could have understood a post-trial response . |
| 2 | This enhancement is thought to be associated with the extraction of additional information about the stimuli in the attended ear . |
| 3 | James Butterworth followed the hooligan careers of similar boys — ‘ Sam Smiler ’ and ‘ Thomas Tiddler ’ — along with the apprenticeship of ‘ Tiddler Junior ’ , because the British hooligan was thought to be getting younger in his time , as in ours : |
| 4 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 5 | In the end Seth killed Apophis , whose blood was thought to be seen in the red or pink tint of the morning and evening sky . |
| 6 | One example can be given to show how this attitude contains its own potentiality for tilting from implicit justification to explicit criticism , should the balance between cost and benefit be thought to be changed . |
| 7 | Floors needing strengthening are simply replaced , and because fine old panelling is thought to be infested with every imaginable beetle permission is obtained to strip it out and replace it in replica . |
| 8 | Its main action appears to be not one of erosion , but merely one of transport : it is the mechanism by which much debris is thought to be moved from the foot of the uplands across the gentle slopes that often border them in deserts . |
| 9 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 10 | Enhanced inputs of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides due to this process are thought to be contributing to acidification ( Blackie and Newson 1986 ) . |
| 11 | The behaviour of the crowds — vulgar , noisy and violent — immediately excited considerable apprehension , and the excesses of the transfer market and professionalism were thought to be ruining the native traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship . |
| 12 | Now that commercial whaling has stopped , the grey whale population is thought to be increasing steadily each year . |
| 13 | However , the nub of Sybase 's interest in the group is thought to be focused at what it can do to make its client/server technology more object-oriented and therefore steal a march over competitors like Oracle Corp and Informix Software . |
| 14 | The southern town was thought to be defended by 150 men from the 181 Division , with a solitary tank and 100 men of a labour corps building defences . |
| 15 | Divine power which inspired fear and awe was thought to be manifested in certain creatures . |
| 16 | Humanity could then as a whole be thought to be summed up in Christ . |
| 17 | This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding , and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn . |
| 18 | The area is thought to be inhabited by about 2,500 polar bears . |
| 19 | The movement is thought to be aided by copepods , 1-mm-long zooplankton that ingest the smallest particles , agglomerate them in their guts and expel them as large and heavier pieces that sink before they can escape to the sea . |
| 20 | The Mimicke Dog was thought to be raised by apes in Africa , from whence it was imported to England as a treasure for Queen Elizabeth I. |
| 21 | The guardian and interpreter of socialist legality was the CPSU and it was in this role that the party justified its intervention in the course of justice in cases where the interest and security of the state were thought to be involved . |
| 22 | The main function of nematode haemoglobin is thought to be to transport oxygen , acquired by diffusion through the cuticle or gut , into the tissues ; blood-sucking worms presumably ingest a considerable amount of oxygenated nutrients in their diet . |
| 23 | 20,000 pensioners , all of whom were obliged by law to pay into a pension fund are thought to be affected . |
| 24 | If the value is ACTIVE , the user is thought to be navigating and if INACTIVE ( from the navigation perspective ) performing an initial search to locate a record on content prior to navigation . |
| 25 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 26 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 27 | However , less than 3% of all deaths from lung cancer are thought to be caused by these substances [ 3 ] . |
| 28 | A significant proportion of the dolphin 's brain is thought to be used in processing the information produced by the echolocation system . |
| 29 | The 28-year-old is thought to be working at a vineyard in Teviso . |
| 30 | In the first well the upper unit appears to be porous and by analogy with the Z2 Carbonate elsewhere the porosity is thought to be composed mainly of intergranular and intragranular pores . |