Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This kind of representational ability is thought to be a particularly important developmental achievement since the essence of early language is the child 's ability to use speech sounds to represent or refer to objects , actions and locations . |
| 3 | The mode of genetic inheritance is thought to be more complex than for bipolar depression , partly because the morbidity risk for relatives of affected individuals is much lower ( Akiskal , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | In most theories of development a major source of bureaucratic power is thought to be the legacy of colonialism under which administrative institutions proliferated while other political structures remained underdeveloped ( Riggs 1963 ) . |
| 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 . |