Example sentences of "[noun] [be] thought [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the writs issued against the two men , 12 writs were obtained by the army 's solicitors , Slaughter & May — mostly to gain access to confidential documents or accounts where funds are thought to be held . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This enhancement is thought to be associated with the extraction of additional information about the stimuli in the attended ear . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | About 16 billion tonnes are thought to be lost every year . |
| 7 | Agility , speed , muscular power , sharpness of reflex , accuracy of judgment , these I presume to be some of the attributes with which blacks are thought to be born . |
| 8 | About 200-300 Awa Guajá are thought to be left alive , of whom about 150 have had no contact with outside society . |
| 9 | One example can be given to show how this attitude contains its own potentiality for tilting from implicit justification to explicit criticism , should the balance between cost and benefit be thought to be changed . |
| 10 | Floors needing strengthening are simply replaced , and because fine old panelling is thought to be infested with every imaginable beetle permission is obtained to strip it out and replace it in replica . |
| 11 | Its main action appears to be not one of erosion , but merely one of transport : it is the mechanism by which much debris is thought to be moved from the foot of the uplands across the gentle slopes that often border them in deserts . |
| 12 | However , the nub of Sybase 's interest in the group is thought to be focused at what it can do to make its client/server technology more object-oriented and therefore steal a march over competitors like Oracle Corp and Informix Software . |
| 13 | The southern town was thought to be defended by 150 men from the 181 Division , with a solitary tank and 100 men of a labour corps building defences . |
| 14 | Divine power which inspired fear and awe was thought to be manifested in certain creatures . |
| 15 | The Queen Mother 's strong beliefs are thought to be rooted in her intense disapproval of her brother-in-law Edward VIII 's decision in 1936 to abdicate for the love of American divorcee Mrs Wallis Simpson . |
| 16 | Humanity could then as a whole be thought to be summed up in Christ . |
| 17 | This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding , and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn . |
| 18 | Santa Claus is thought to be derived from which saint ? |
| 19 | The area is thought to be inhabited by about 2,500 polar bears . |
| 20 | The movement is thought to be aided by copepods , 1-mm-long zooplankton that ingest the smallest particles , agglomerate them in their guts and expel them as large and heavier pieces that sink before they can escape to the sea . |
| 21 | The Mimicke Dog was thought to be raised by apes in Africa , from whence it was imported to England as a treasure for Queen Elizabeth I. |
| 22 | The tears are thought to be caused by her pain as she looks at the sins of the world , and are meant to inspire the watchers to repent and to set an example to others . |
| 23 | Higher level reservoirs are thought to be charged from the same source by migration through faults or fault contacts . |
| 24 | The guardian and interpreter of socialist legality was the CPSU and it was in this role that the party justified its intervention in the course of justice in cases where the interest and security of the state were thought to be involved . |
| 25 | Around 800,000 children are thought to be affected , and even those living 200 miles north of the reactor still receive constant , dangerous doses . |
| 26 | The men are thought to be aged about 25 , 6ft tall with short fair hair . |
| 27 | 20,000 pensioners , all of whom were obliged by law to pay into a pension fund are thought to be affected . |
| 28 | The thrushes are thought to be harmed by consuming slugs and snails which have been treated with molluscicides , whose use has grown by 900 per cent in recent years . |
| 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 | The amount of energy carried by the electrons is thought to be spread smoothly across a spectrum . |