Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] think to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Key variables were thought to be the size of the selected area , the population characteristics and the traffic structure . |
| 3 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 4 | The earlier stations were not as successful as their British counterparts but later designs were thought to be an improvement . |
| 5 | If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself . |
| 6 | The date of these vessels was thought to be late second century ( although , as I write this , a more accurate date is from c . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | A period of three years was thought to be necessary for census-taking and drawing up electoral rolls . |
| 10 | Feelings were thought to be strong , on either side , about the sentence that was now to be carried out . |
| 11 | Writers were thought to be probably the more rational and intellectual of the two . |
| 12 | The bombings were thought to be in retaliation for the shooting by British soldiers in an undercover operation on Oct. 9 of IRA activists Desmond Grew and Martin McCaughey near Loughgall in south Armagh . |
| 13 | The operation by fund managers was thought to be purely tactical , to avoid the risk of a sharp fall in the currency followed by an equally sharp rise should the next government decide to apply the remedy of higher interest rates . |
| 14 | The sudden onset of severe weather conditions was thought to be a frequent result of disturbance to a site . |
| 15 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
| 16 | Although corporacy and good relations were thought to be important , both sides acknowledged that conflicts of interest were bound to happen which had to be worked through by negotiation and bargaining . |
| 17 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 18 | Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable . |
| 19 | He went on to add that disgruntled acid house partygoers were thought to be behind the vandalism . |
| 20 | Although the Cabinet was composed of members of the ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea ( PDGE ) , some members were thought to be close to the opposition . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , in view of the public pressure , the police responded by adopting routine tactics of stopping and searching black people in the street , especially in areas where muggings were thought to be commonplace . |
| 23 | Overall , though the various criminal justice agencies were seen as differentially culpable with regard to racial discrimination , racially prejudiced attitudes were thought to be widespread . |
| 24 | My problems are precisely the same as my father 's , but the climate 's different now : in those days , people who had large houses were thought to be plutocrats who ran society , the Establishment if you like . |
| 25 | Large integrated securities houses were thought to be necessary as an average size broker without a market-maker could feasibly find itself advising on equities , yet the business of transactions could easily be carried out elsewhere . |
| 26 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 27 | While the Danzig Poles were thought to be docile and largely invisible , it is clear that their slumbering sense of identity had been roused by anti-Polish policies . |
| 28 | This is reflected in the tendency to look back to a ‘ golden age ’ when these societies were thought to be more peaceful and law abiding . |
| 29 | To some degree , this has reinforced a kind of ‘ nostalgia ’ for the past when rural societies were thought to be organized as relatively undivided ‘ communities ’ . |
| 30 | Often , ill or retarded babies were thought to be changelings and were miserably tortured in an attempt to force them to revert to fairy form . |