Example sentences of "thought to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiators for 33,000 manual workers at Ford Motor Company yesterday put in a bid for a ‘ substantial rise ’ — thought to be at least 10 per cent . |
| 2 | The Lords of the West Marches and their Commissioners from both sides of the border , wherever that was thought to be at the time , met there to resolve complaints and grievances . |
| 3 | None of them was seen as capable of safely preparing a meal ; seven would wander away from home if not watched ; four were substantially incontinent ; five were thought to be at risk with gas or fires ; six were physically frail or had mobility difficulties . |
| 4 | A NEW study of insulin-dependent diabetes in identical twins has brought doctors closer than ever to being able to predict its development in people thought to be at risk . |
| 5 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 6 | He was , however , thought to be at risk of developing post-operative complications because of the nature of the surgery to be undertaken . |
| 7 | Their family reputation may be thought to be at stake ; the parents may fear lest care of the grandchild should become their responsibility ; the prospect of the girl 's becoming a " bad girl " may weigh heavily ; punishment — of the girl , the man concerned or both -may be a primary demand . |
| 8 | So by the 1930s there were thought to be at least 10 million cyclists — ten times the number of private motorists . |
| 9 | Sixteen children thought to be at high risk had a further individual assessment . |
| 10 | There are a number of different varieties of quarks : there are thought to be at least six " flavors , " which we call up , down , strange , charmed , bottom , and top . |
| 11 | However , the introduction of the new lower 20% tax band on the first 2,000 of taxable income in March 1992 should help improve the position of some 4 million people who are thought to be at the lowest end of the income scale . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Moncef was thought to be at a secret location in Tunisia . |
| 14 | Some of the changes have been suggested because individual modules are thought to be at an appropriate level . |
| 15 | There are thought to be at least 12 wolves in the area , including juveniles . |
| 16 | What we 're saying on the whole is that we , we are moving south erm militarily we , we now control most of north China , we begin to move on to the into areas of very high tenancy where landlordism was thought to be at its extreme but all we 're doing is reducing rents and interest rents . |
| 17 | Evidence of that had thought to be at . |
| 18 | The Foreign Office has now issued a warning to tourists about terrorist activity in Egypt , and says the reason it was n't given out sooner is because British tourists were n't thought to be at risk . |
| 19 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 20 | Across the nation aristocratic backwoodsmen , a tribe previously thought to be on the verge of extinction , tottered off to the nearest railway station to obey the summons . |
| 21 | Ana 's Cross is visible for miles , and is thought to be on a ley line with Young Ralph 's Cross at Blakey . |
| 22 | The incidence of schizophrenia is also thought to be on the decline in Australia . |
| 23 | Comando Quintín Lamé ( Quintín Lamé Commando , thought to be on the verge of demobilizing — see below for current guerrilla demobilizations ) . |
| 24 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 25 | And fashion store Etam is thought to be on the brink of signing a letting agreement involving its switch from its Northgate store into the Cornmill . |
| 26 | One is thought to be with Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 27 | Because their tour of duty usually lasted no more than three or four years their primary loyalties were thought to be to their careers in the Home Office at large . |
| 28 | Where the technique was first practised is unknown , although it is traditionally thought to be of Chinese origin , although there are accounts of it being used in India around 550 BC . |
| 29 | Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints . |
| 30 | This has an unusual external iron undershot wheel , thought to be of the Poncelot type , complete with iron buckets . |