Example sentences of "[prep] what be think to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a few hundred yards from West Mercia police HQ in Worcester and the first of what 's thought to be 28,000 drivers in this area with no tax disc , is pulled in . |
| 2 | Even the Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , has been unable to obtain a copy of what is thought to be a damning indictment of Orkney Islands Council Social Work Department . |
| 3 | An aviation archaeologist in Normandy has dug up the remains of what is thought to be a Seafire , naval version of the Spitfire fighter , buried some 20 feet deep in a maize field near Rauville-la-Place . |
| 4 | Detectives and uniformed officers went to an address in Victor Road on Friday evening and seized a quantity of what is thought to be cannabis resin . |
| 5 | Including that holding , Owners was last night claiming the support of holders of more than 25 per cent of its shares , while Airtours , despite purchases in the market and the assent of what is thought to be Mercury Asset Management 's 15 per cent stake , claimed control of just 22.8 per cent . |
| 6 | The stones consist of a pair of burr stones for corn grinding and a set of what are thought to be Peak stones used for animal feed . |
| 7 | The matter has a long history and is illustrative of how law can lag behind what is thought to be economically desirable . |
| 8 | ‘ She was approached from behind and hit over the back with what is thought to be a piece of hosepipe , ’ a spokeswoman for Cleveland Police said last night . |
| 9 | This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre . |
| 10 | A former Ministry of Defence worker , has been found guilty of accepting one and a half million pounds in backhanders from arms companies , in what 's thought to be the biggest ever corruption case . |
| 11 | P1344 never made it , being forced down in what was thought to be Finland on the night of the 4th/5th . |
| 12 | Pieces were collected and laid out in what was thought to be their correct positions . |
| 13 | By the evening of Jan. 26 between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 barrels of oil were estimated to have poured into the Gulf , in what was thought to be the worst oil spillage in history [ for March 1989 Exxon Valdez spill see pp. 36541 ; 36606 ] . |
| 14 | In this way , the uncertainty principle allows particles to escape from what was thought to be the ultimate prison , a black hole . |
| 15 | Like the British , the Danes have watched with growing alarm as the institutions of the EEC have begun to take control of matters far beyond what was thought to be their original remit . |
| 16 | But one criticism made later in the same commentary drew attention to what was thought to be missing " above all , two things : one of them a sense of history , both a broad and more local framework within which the achievement of these schools can be placed and evaluated ; the other a sense of the actual texture of the schools themselves " ( Tizard et al. |
| 17 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 18 | A search for what was thought to be a body has been called off after police found an aircraft cargo net . |
| 19 | This had happened at what was thought to be the king 's deathbed on 6 March 1093 . |
| 20 | He went to see a young clergyman , seized by what was thought to be a dangerous illness : |
| 21 | He was laid low by what was thought to be a stomach bug during the club 's trip to Norway last week . |