Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] thought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the things typically thought to be left out were : |
| 2 | Over the past decade it has become accepted that some of the fossils formerly thought to be human ancestors are in fact on the line leading to the orang-utan . |
| 3 | Thus a government which while adhering to the rule of law narrowly defined , flouted all or most of the practices generally thought to be covered by the rule of law broadly defined would also give rise to doubts about its legitimacy . |
| 4 | Apparently , Halsbury then ‘ conceived the idea that the case should be re-argued before an enlarged body of Law Lords and that , in addition , the House should adopt once more the practice of summoning the High Court judges to advise ’ , a practice generally thought to be obsolete . |
| 5 | He 's a rare well preserved example of a person originally thought to be from the bronze age . |
| 6 | Across the nation aristocratic backwoodsmen , a tribe previously thought to be on the verge of extinction , tottered off to the nearest railway station to obey the summons . |
| 7 | The death of the Eleventh Fürst , Johannes Thurn und Taxis , in 1990 , after a lavish life lived in anachronistic , princely , style , has revealed the financial disarray of a family previously thought to be enormously rich . |
| 8 | The case was noteworthy for the fact that a section hitherto thought to be aimed only at espionage had been employed against peaceful protesters . |
| 9 | The man and an accomplice both thought to be in their late teens tried to rob The Candy Box , Ayresome Street , Middlesbrough , at 8.45pm on Saturday . |