Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] think to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , Beccaria 's philosophy exhibits what could be regarded as a curious combination of concern with the rights of the individual under the social contract on the one hand , and utilitarian reductivism on the other — curious because rights theory and utilitarianism are often thought to be philosophically incompatible . |
| 2 | The proximal colon and the small intestine are also thought to be dysfunctional in IBS . |
| 3 | Copywrite fraud is now thought to be costing software companies £20m pounds a year . |
| 4 | Copywrite fraud is now thought to be costing software companies £20m pounds a year . |
| 5 | The mid-West systems integrator , which specialises in servicing and supporting Sun workstations , looks set to inject some new life into the lacklustre compatible market , promising not only a ‘ true clone ’ of Sun 's Sparcstation 10 workstation — within a month of Sun 's first superscalar deliveries — but also an intermediate Sparcstation 10 IPX system , an offering Sun is also thought to be mulling , and Sparcservers too . |
| 6 | The development work is n't thought to be linked to Sun in any formal way , but the news comes just a week after Sun revealed that it is playing with a 64-bit Sparc , and outlined its intent to define the ground rules for such environments through a new release of Sparc International 's interface specification for 64-bit Sparc architectures ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 7 | Darwin 's own account of the unrestrained ‘ law of battle ’ in animals readily fits in with the theory of natural selection ; therefore , as his account of the law of battle is now thought to be wrong , we are left with the problem of reconciling new observation and established theory . |
| 8 | Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers . |
| 9 | Radical change by Government edict was not thought to be appropriate in England , where teachers had for long seen themselves as equal partners in the process of educational development and change . |
| 10 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 11 | Active aggression is now thought to be exceptional . |
| 12 | For example , attention is often thought to be directed particularly to information which is inconsistent with the currently active schema ( e.g. G.R.Loftus & Mackworth , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | As a result unemployment , never before a serious issue in Russia , is a major concern and a large part of the population is now thought to be below the poverty line . |
| 14 | The poetic name has been replaced by terms such as " chaotic complex " and the pseudo-scientific " Olistostromes " without really adding to our knowledge , but the essential point is that submarine landslipping is now thought to be only part of the process rather than the whole . |
| 15 | Rational thought and behaviour are generally thought to be dependent in some ways upon an ability to reason logically . |
| 16 | Equator is now thought to be working on Intel Corp 's i860 RISC processor , retargeting the Trace compilers for that architecture , as well as ‘ liaising with other major vendors ’ who originally signed with Multiflow , such as Hewlett-Packard Co , HAL Computer Systems Inc and Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 17 | Air pollution was not thought to be responsible . |
| 18 | There had been no improvement in productivity , retail prices went up by 1.5 per cent ( although the real level of inflation was widely thought to be at least double that ) , and wages remained static in real terms . |
| 19 | In some circumstances adversity was even thought to be a desirable proof of God 's favour , as in the cases of the Old Testament heroes , Job and Jeremiah . |
| 20 | After two days of almost non-stop rain , the first day was washed out completely , since the lakes dotted around the ground were not thought to be conducive to good cricket . |
| 21 | Apple is currently thought to be working on two efforts to move the production version of the Mac environment onto to the PowerPC , one using a large amount of emulation , the other a large amount of translation . |
| 22 | If a country 's exchange rate is generally thought to be overvalued , however , then the central bank concerned would face heavy losses of foreign currency if it attempted to maintain the exchange rate at its current value . |
| 23 | These are objects for which the compact object is normally thought to be a neutron star ; the most popular model for the QPOs involves interaction between an accretion flow and the magnetosphere of the neutron star . |
| 24 | His self portrait with his dog is often thought to be the inspiration for John Bull and his bulldog . |
| 25 | However , the span of control is now thought to be dependent on : |
| 26 | The skeleton was originally thought to be female and was called the ‘ Red Lady of Paviland ’ because the bones had been dyed with the red ochre of a ritual burial . |
| 27 | This pathway was originally thought to be important only in those tissues lacking ADH , such as the heart , but a recent study has shown in vivo formation of FAEEs in the liver and pancreas during ethanol exposure . |
| 28 | In contributing towards the creation of the properly trained worker , adaptability was also thought to be an indispensable element in the struggle to reduce unemployment , ( what Sadler called ‘ human waste ’ ) , though its direct impact was the subject of some discussion . |
| 29 | Indeed Ranter writing was not thought to be a proper subject for literary inquiry . |
| 30 | In both shallow and deep water examples the origin of the overgrowth cement calcite is generally thought to be from aragonite dissolution during early diagenesis , although modifications of sea water chemistry with ocean depth and with shallow burial may be in part responsible . |