Example sentences of "[be] [adv] think [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | McHale is an admirer of York City 's out-of-favour keeper Chris Marples and is also thought to be keen on City midfielder Sean Reid . |
| 32 | He 's been nicknamed the M25 robber because he 's also thought to be responsible for up to 20 armed raids near the M25 around London . |
| 33 | Active aggression is now thought to be exceptional . |
| 34 | Darwin 's own account of the unrestrained ‘ law of battle ’ in animals readily fits in with the theory of natural selection ; therefore , as his account of the law of battle is now thought to be wrong , we are left with the problem of reconciling new observation and established theory . |
| 35 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price . |
| 36 | However , the span of control is now thought to be dependent on : |
| 37 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 38 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 39 | Radical change by Government edict was not thought to be appropriate in England , where teachers had for long seen themselves as equal partners in the process of educational development and change . |
| 40 | Air pollution was not thought to be responsible . |
| 41 | Most of the damage to trees was not thought to be permanent . |
| 42 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 43 | The first document , Curriculum 11–16 , was generally thought to be useful . |
| 44 | I certainly had a good time and judging by the sweat on everyone 's brow as they worked to perfect their routines I think it was generally thought to be enjoyable and worthwhile . |
| 45 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |
| 46 | The sliding scale for the disposal of large items was also thought to be unreasonable . |
| 47 | At that time , the adoption of floating exchange rates was also thought to be advantageous since the constraints of the gold standard could be abandoned . |
| 48 | Behaviour on the terraces was also thought to be deteriorating in the 1930s and crowd incidents — involving pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and occasional confrontations between spectators and the police — were exciting the same interest . |
| 49 | The skeleton was originally thought to be female and was called the ‘ Red Lady of Paviland ’ because the bones had been dyed with the red ochre of a ritual burial . |
| 50 | This separating layer is undoubtedly mainly a protein and was originally thought to be similar to keratin which is the protein in hair . |
| 51 | This pathway was originally thought to be important only in those tissues lacking ADH , such as the heart , but a recent study has shown in vivo formation of FAEEs in the liver and pancreas during ethanol exposure . |
| 52 | That the signing of Nafta was now thought to be unlikely until after the November 1992 US presidential elections was a serious political setback for Salinas , who had invested considerable political capital in reaching an accord . |
| 53 | Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well . |