Example sentences of "were thought to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Here , as before , we see how claims which were thought to be just and well-attested in practice , were in danger of extinction from the lack of the documents which met the requirements of a new age . |
| 3 | Writers were thought to be probably the more rational and intellectual of the two . |
| 4 | Because the cats wandered about , often at night , they were thought to be either the supernatural servants of the witches , or else the witches themselves , transformed into cat-shape to aid their nocturnal travels when seeking revenge . |
| 5 | Married women were thought to be particularly likely to abuse the system because of the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework . |
| 6 | Iran and pro-Iranian forces in Lebanon were thought to be particularly angered at the lack of pressure by the USA on Israel to obtain the release of more than 300 Lebanese Moslem hostages in south Lebanon . |
| 7 | This is reflected in the tendency to look back to a ‘ golden age ’ when these societies were thought to be more peaceful and law abiding . |
| 8 | In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic . |
| 9 | Before the present conflict there were thought to be as many as 4,000 elephants in Sri Lanka , though 3,000 is a more likely total . |
| 10 | Some of the girls pictured were thought to be as young as 6 . |
| 11 | Many problems which we are prepared to treat as bipolar have ramifications which could be taken into account if they were thought to be as important as the impact of the decision on the two contestants . |
| 12 | Conventional scientific wisdom has held that whales are relatively immune from the effects of toxic chemicals , because such contaminants were thought to be safely stored in the blubber , a tissue considered to be fairly inert . |
| 13 | By the time that hostilities were suspended on Feb. 28 , the 43rd day of the war , only 30,000 Iraqi troops in the Kuwaiti theatre of operations — a roughly 250-km square of territory south of the Euphrates-Tigris rivers — were thought to be still combat-effective . |