Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] thought [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This enhancement is thought to be associated with the extraction of additional information about the stimuli in the attended ear . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Divine power which inspired fear and awe was thought to be manifested in certain creatures . |
| 10 | Humanity could then as a whole be thought to be summed up in Christ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The area is thought to be inhabited by about 2,500 polar bears . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 20,000 pensioners , all of whom were obliged by law to pay into a pension fund are thought to be affected . |
| 17 | However , less than 3% of all deaths from lung cancer are thought to be caused by these substances [ 3 ] . |
| 18 | A significant proportion of the dolphin 's brain is thought to be used in processing the information produced by the echolocation system . |
| 19 | In the first well the upper unit appears to be porous and by analogy with the Z2 Carbonate elsewhere the porosity is thought to be composed mainly of intergranular and intragranular pores . |
| 20 | This feature is thought to be related to the reproductive cycle . |
| 21 | And this special culture is thought to be found in a particularly acute and virulent form in Scotland and in some parts of the North of England . |
| 22 | Although originally the doctrine was thought to be restricted to cases of iniquity or wrong-doing on the part of the party seeking to enforce the obligation of confidence , it is now clear that this is not so . |
| 23 | Its decision was thought to be motivated by concern about pressure from the US , which threatened during the meeting to impose trade sanctions on countries that resumed commercial whaling . |
| 24 | This definition is perhaps too rigid and discounts differing chain flexibilities , so a more accurate representation is thought to be given by |
| 25 | If an individual was right-handed , then speech was thought to be controlled by the left hemisphere ; if he was left-handed , then the right hemisphere was considered responsible . |
| 26 | That assertion of professional autonomy was thought to be reinforced by studies which stressed that curriculum development should be school-based , rooted in the professional context of teachers rather than in distant centres such as Whitehall or Edinburgh . |