Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] think to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | NEGOTIATING a settlement acceptable to both sides has proved difficult but a divorce is thought to be imminent . |
| 3 | A loop was thought to be possible and there were those who claimed to have seen one . |
| 4 | Initially a meter was thought to be desirable for accurate monitoring , but now there are available test strips which do not require a meter and are sufficiently accurate for the purpose if correctly used ( Ferguson & Prosser , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Humanity could then as a whole be thought to be summed up in Christ . |
| 6 | The possibility of permission being granted for such a hunt was thought to be instrumental in persuading Japan not to break ranks with the IWC . |