Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [be] thought [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Pesticides washed from farms and gardens into creeks and ponds are thought to be responsible . |
| 5 | Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable . |
| 6 | In days of yore , such places were spattered with the blood of sacrificial victims to ensure good fortune in battle , and dunters are thought to be the spirits of these unhappy people . |
| 7 | Tipler 's description of a working time machine is a cylinder with the density of a neutron star , 100 km long and 10 km in radius , rotation twice every millisecond ( New Scientist , vol. 87 , p 654 ) , superficially , such an object would be a lot like a fast pulsar , since pulsars are thought to be rotation neutron stars , but the fastest pulsar known when Tipler made his calculations was the Crab pulsar , with a period of 30 milliseconds . |