Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be thought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Considering the nature of the ailment it will come as no surprise that one of the major causes is thought to be constipation and , again , the straining involved in evacuating a hard faecal mass . |
| 32 | Married women were thought to be particularly likely to abuse the system because of the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework . |
| 33 | This form of predation by Egyptian vultures is thought to be a significant source of egg loss for many ostriches . |
| 34 | About 16 billion tonnes are thought to be lost every year . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Bangladeshi babies are thought to be vulnerable , and they sleep close to other people both day and night ; at night they are either in the mother 's bed or in a cot next to it , a practice also reported by Farooqi et al . |
| 37 | Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 ’ . |
| 40 | Around 800,000 children are thought to be affected , and even those living 200 miles north of the reactor still receive constant , dangerous doses . |
| 41 | Particular approaches are thought to be supportive of commercial activity and are adopted with this end in view . |
| 42 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | At angiography performed in patients with chronic pancreatitis without gastro intestinal bleeding pseudoaneurysms have been seen in 10–21% of cases but only 1–8% of gastrointestinal bleedings in patients with pancreatic pseudocysts are thought to be pseudoaneurysm related . |
| 45 | The official inquiry into the accident is now yet complete , but senior officers are thought to be satisfied that Flight Sergeant Pritchard was not at fault . |
| 46 | As noted by Kelsall ( 1979 ) , if the development of appreciative faculties is thought to be an important goal of art education then ‘ … approaches to achieving this goal by means other than those based exclusively on the productive aspects of art need to be developed ’ . |
| 47 | Both men are thought to be about 19-years-old . |
| 48 | To date , 52 people had been confirmed shot dead but 400 others were thought to be missing . |