Example sentences of "thought [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Matthew is usually thought to be William Taylor ( see p. 13 ) , but Taylor died at thirty-two . |
| 2 | Hill Samuel said yesterday that the plan to put Ferranti 's naval and avionics businesses into a separate company and to merge it with another UK defence company , thought to be Thorn EMI , is to be investigated further . |
| 3 | The stones consist of a pair of burr stones for corn grinding and a set of what are thought to be Peak stones used for animal feed . |
| 4 | Including that holding , Owners was last night claiming the support of holders of more than 25 per cent of its shares , while Airtours , despite purchases in the market and the assent of what is thought to be Mercury Asset Management 's 15 per cent stake , claimed control of just 22.8 per cent . |
| 5 | This section provides a brief overview of those social abilities which are thought to be development precursors to the emergence of spoken language . |
| 6 | Front runners for this project are thought to be ICL Plc , Data General Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 7 | Front runners for this project are thought to be ICL Plc , Data General Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 8 | The most prestigious site in Belfast is thought to be prismatics site on Ann Street , which normally works out at £350 for two weeks . |
| 9 | At Hexham George Moore introduces Afton Express , once thought to be champion hurdle material , to fences in the Portman Bloodstock Novice Chase . |
| 10 | One of his paintings shows a rough wooden gallery on a house thought to be Willy Hill . |
| 11 | There was excitement the night before the Sale opened , when what was thought to be Winston Churchill 's autograph was found on the flyleaf of an old maggot-eaten book , which had found its way to Edinburgh , from a North-West frontier War early this century . |
| 12 | The most likely cause was thought to be diesel exhaust fumes . |
| 13 | The three men , two of whom were subsequently found to have been carrying replica guns , were not thought to be IRA members but had known records of delinquency . |
| 14 | Sceptics may be willing to concede on bees and lighthouses — and on many other examples hitherto thought to be market failures — but the case of clean air remains awkward . |
| 15 | He is thought to be Pol Pot 's effective deputy . |
| 16 | Detectives and uniformed officers went to an address in Victor Road on Friday evening and seized a quantity of what is thought to be cannabis resin . |
| 17 | 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 . |