Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] thought to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in pairs are thought to be clever dicks , sorry . |
| 2 | If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself . |
| 3 | The date of these vessels was thought to be late second century ( although , as I write this , a more accurate date is from c . |
| 4 | The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators . |
| 5 | Shetlanders are afraid that they might be excluded from this market — with their higher salaries and various company safeguards , incomers are thought to be willing to make higher bids for scarce pieces of land . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | SCO , whose revenues are thought to be double USL 's and whose board reportedly wants to cash out , makes no secret of the fact that it has been contemplating its own initial public offering ( IPO ) for some time . |
| 8 | A period of three years was thought to be necessary for census-taking and drawing up electoral rolls . |
| 9 | Pesticides washed from farms and gardens into creeks and ponds are thought to be responsible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Feelings were thought to be strong , on either side , about the sentence that was now to be carried out . |
| 12 | Some of the representations are thought to be actual portraits . |
| 13 | Judges who thumb their noses at presidents are thought to be good for democracy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable . |
| 18 | The differences are thought to be functional differences in the nervous system . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Host factors are thought to be important in determining the severity of the response to this parasite . |
| 28 | Coun. David Lyonette ( Lab ) said he was surprised to find that bus diesel engines are thought to be major contributors towards town centre air pollution . |
| 29 | Particular approaches are thought to be supportive of commercial activity and are adopted with this end in view . |
| 30 | Without a demand for services , no services were thought to be necessary . |