Example sentences of "[noun sg] was think to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Divine power which inspired fear and awe was thought to be manifested in certain creatures . |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | Although originally the doctrine was thought to be restricted to cases of iniquity or wrong-doing on the part of the party seeking to enforce the obligation of confidence , it is now clear that this is not so . |
| 8 | Its decision was thought to be motivated by concern about pressure from the US , which threatened during the meeting to impose trade sanctions on countries that resumed commercial whaling . |
| 9 | If an individual was right-handed , then speech was thought to be controlled by the left hemisphere ; if he was left-handed , then the right hemisphere was considered responsible . |
| 10 | That assertion of professional autonomy was thought to be reinforced by studies which stressed that curriculum development should be school-based , rooted in the professional context of teachers rather than in distant centres such as Whitehall or Edinburgh . |
| 11 | However , the five main opposition parties refused to accept any role in his government , whose main task was thought to be to supervise the shift to multiparty politics and the adoption of a new constitution during 1991 . |