Example sentences of "think to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | General Noriega tried to isolate opposition within the military after a similar coup attempt last year by promoting loyal officers to the important Strategic Military Council and General Staff , and retiring those thought to be less enthusiastic in their support of him . |
| 32 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock . |
| 33 | The sale , for a sum not thought to be material , marks the final dismemberment of Metro-Cammell Weymann , the vehicles business which unbeknown to Laird lost £50m over several years . |
| 34 | Six nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion monastery at Daventry end their hen house occupation to prevent the slaughter of 5,000 hens thought to be infected with salmonella . |
| 35 | The 10-roomed priory was converted into a house in Tudor times , and has medieval wall paintings , including a larger-than-life size crucifixion scene and a 30-ft long series of paintings dealing with the priory 's foundation , thought to be among the finest in Europe . |
| 36 | The company , which is one of the leading manufacturers of timber pallets in the UK , is thought to be planning the acquisition of a components manufacturer for about £700,000 . |
| 37 | Raper 's last known address was Quezon City in the Philippines though he is now thought to be in Switzerland . |
| 38 | PROPERTY stocks and high interest rates are not thought to be a good combination . |
| 39 | SHV , which has 43 per cent of Calor Group , was thought to be buying Burmah . |
| 40 | He is thought to be Pol Pot 's effective deputy . |
| 41 | Subterfuge was thought to be better than violence . ’ |
| 42 | It is thought to be the largest British dairy farm to go green , and the conversion — for deeply held environmental reasons — is backed by sound economic logic . |
| 43 | The moves to stem wildcat stoppages , condemned by unions and the Labour Party and the independent Industrial Society — are thought to be the first time ministers have sought to legislate against the individual . |
| 44 | In my trade this is thought to be par for the course . |
| 45 | Northumbrian , Wessex , Southern and Yorkshire are thought to be vulnerable . |
| 46 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 47 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 48 | They are thought to be from south China . |
| 49 | Major works by Anselm Kiefer previously thought to be in Saatchi 's possession were , it was said , changing hands for prices in excess of $1m ; Saatchi was rumoured to be selling equally major pictures from his unrivalled holdings of works by Georg Baselitz , Francesco Clemente , Julian Schnabel and others . |
| 50 | This is the comment of an All Black thought to be under as much threat as any , in his case from the Auckland No. 8 Zinzan Brooke ( whose christian name , incidentally , is English not Maori ) . |
| 51 | Those who do might also be thought to be insincere , but some policemen showed real regret and disappointment when they were unable to provide the service they felt they should , whether because of the nature of the call or because of unrealistic public expectations ( such as finding lost budgies , preventing sheep-worrying , or reconciling warring spouses and quarrelsome neighbours ) . |
| 52 | If there are thought to be sufficient similarities between the markets in two or more countries , comparisons can be made of selected statistics from each . |
| 53 | Government ministers tried to stem the tide of mounting public expenditure : John Nott 's replacing Francis Pym at the Ministry of Defence in January 1981 was thought to be a pointer in this direction . |
| 54 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 55 | The worst difficulty came with his brother Frank , whom Ramsey thought to be the cleverest person he knew . |
| 56 | The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial . |
| 57 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 58 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 59 | It also suggests , paradoxically , that the less autonomous individuality is thought to be , the more it might be marked by a potentially subversive agency . |
| 60 | It is not clear which , the anger or the boredom , was thought to be the more insulting , but both were expressed as that arrogance for which he was often hated . |