Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] thought [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Islington , Southwark , Camden and Hounslow were thought to be in the bag . |
| 2 | No German warships were thought to be in the immediate area and only some four squadrons of fighters and bombers — an estimated 37 planes — were flying from Herdia , Stavanger , and Trondheim . |
| 3 | It was unclear whether the move was backed by the government of Croatia , since Serbo-Croat negotiations over partitioning Bosnia-Hercegovina were thought to be backed by the respective Presidents [ see p. 38919 ] . |
| 4 | Key variables were thought to be the size of the selected area , the population characteristics and the traffic structure . |
| 5 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 6 | The earlier stations were not as successful as their British counterparts but later designs were thought to be an improvement . |
| 7 | If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself . |
| 8 | Had the Home Office research shown that the majority of offences within reported crime were thought to be committed by people on probation , under SSD supervision , or on community programmes , one could have understood a post-trial response . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | For all these reasons the future was thought to be uncertain . |
| 11 | The mathematical probability of any family producing a chess Grandmaster was thought to be relatively low ; the mathematical probability of producing three in a row goes off the chart . |
| 12 | Just where he was now and where he was heading was uncertain , this possibly having much to do with the non-arrival of Murray and the Steward , since both would be coming from the West Country and Balliol was thought to be marching southwards down the middle of the land . |
| 13 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 14 | The conditions of mass unemployment certainly helped to support the feeling of leniency , in that crime was thought to be an inevitable consequence of poverty , so that there was an active sympathy for the young unemployed whose miserable condition was further highlighted in a perceived increase of suicides among the young . |
| 15 | For a start , the figures exclude transactions that occurred on the last two business days of the month — the very time when pressure on the pound was thought to be most intense . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Until lately , Turkey 's worst fear was thought to be a vacuum in northern Iraq , leaving room for an autonomous Kurdish entity — which , in its turn , would be a beacon for the separatist movement on Turkish soil . |
| 18 | Sir Geraint was thought to be making a good recovery in hospital after suffering a minor heart attack at his home near Aberystwyth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The date of these vessels was thought to be late second century ( although , as I write this , a more accurate date is from c . |
| 21 | Painful bowel movements were thought to be present if the child complained of pain during defecation or when the child exhibited screaming or crying in anticipation of , or during , defecation , if the parent reported blood on the stool or if the child had an anal fissure present at the time of examination . |
| 22 | Because of these common anatomical and behavioural features lampreys and hagfishes were thought to be most closely related to one another among the modern fauna and were recognized as cyclostomes ( Fig. 2A , a ) . |
| 23 | This was an attempt to retain some of the advantages of the gold standard , since stable rates of exchange were thought to be beneficial to the conduct of trade and other international transactions , and yet adjustments in the exchange rate were deemed desirable for a country facing a permanent payments imbalance . |
| 24 | MEMBER firms of the London Stock Exchange were thought to be back in profit in the last quarter of 1992 after a third-quarter deficit caused by heavy dealing losses and falling revenues . |
| 25 | A loop was thought to be possible and there were those who claimed to have seen one . |
| 26 | Stool withholding was thought to be present if the child exhibited a certain behaviour at the time of defecation , often termed ‘ the duty dance ’ . |
| 27 | The evident SOC retreat from the more moderate stance of December was thought to be due to the influence of a hardline faction which feared that the peace plan would open the way to systematic Khmer Rouge infiltration under unwitting UN protection . |
| 28 | There was considerable irony in the fact that it was Baden-Powell , the maverick hero of Mafeking , who should come to rescue England from its Hooligans , if only because the feverish excitement of the jingo crowds and the ‘ Mafficking ’ that accompanied the South African campaign was thought to be no less of an affront to the English sang froid than ‘ Hooliganism ’ itself . |
| 29 | Almost 40 per cent of such problems were attributed in whole or part to the pupils ' characteristics whilst in about 65 per cent of cases the home was thought to be wholly or partly to blame . |
| 30 | At one time pouchitis was thought to be a serious complication of pouch construction and even an argument against resorative proctocolectomy . |