Example sentences of "[is] thought to be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because work is still considered a male role , leisure , similarly , is thought to be a male preserve . |
| 2 | Anil Gadre , vice president of systems product marketing at Sun told Unigram a couple of weeks ago that a Sparc version of Novell 's Portable NetWare would arrive soon : meanwhile it 's thought the two will shortly announce NetWare SunLink to run on top of Sun 's Solaris 2.0 for Intel Corp platforms , which is thought to be a key part of Sun 's bid to capture a share of the Unix-on-Intel market . |
| 3 | Even the Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , has been unable to obtain a copy of what is thought to be a damning indictment of Orkney Islands Council Social Work Department . |
| 4 | He is thought to be a good economist , but a back-room boy . |
| 5 | Lee Brown , the former New York police chief who was appointed as ‘ drug tsar ’ by Bill Clinton on April 28th , is thought to be a good appointment . |
| 6 | Ours is thought to be a multi-faith , multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society , one in which diversity of life-style flourishes and which tolerates and fosters social and individual differences . |
| 7 | The buyer was not identified , but is thought to be a private collector . |
| 8 | Thus , its growth rate is thought to be a useful guide to the future rate of inflation . |
| 9 | The desire to achieve success at work , and to be recognised as doing so , is thought to be a powerful source of motivation . |
| 10 | These observations suggest that the rectal contractile response , which is thought to be a spinal reflex and the internal sphincter relaxation , an enteric reflex , are both normally suppressed by descending inhibitory pathways . |
| 11 | A useful collection of theorems and proofs is presented at the end of the chapter : among these is what is thought to be a novel proof of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy . |
| 12 | Naming rape victims without their permission is thought to be a bad thing . |
| 13 | This form of predation by Egyptian vultures is thought to be a significant source of egg loss for many ostriches . |
| 14 | If price is thought to be a significant factor in the product 's success , then the manufacturer should only deal with distributors who are willing to agree a mark-up and selling price with the manufacturer . |
| 15 | A second limitation , at least if the joint profit maximizing ( cartel ) allocation is thought to be a likely objective of the collusion , is that this allocation may not be sustainable by threats of reversion to a Cournot-Nash equilibrium . |