Example sentences of "[be] think [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In turn , the problems and difficulties themselves are thought to be irremediable ( Hargreaves 1975 , Leach 1977 ) , in the sense that they can not be resolved in the usual school or classroom context . |
| 32 | At least two IRA cells are thought to be active on the mainland . |
| 33 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 34 | It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent . |
| 35 | The Pele Tower and the gallery are thought to be 14th Century . |
| 36 | Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws , if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair . |
| 37 | In fact , there are thought to be three million people who suffer from it . |
| 38 | Changes which are identified here are thought to be suggestive of changes which might take place in other areas of Shetland as the construction phase of the oil era winds down , and the oil production phase takes off in earnest . |
| 39 | While New Zealand , Australia and the West Indies are thought to be ready to back the TCCB 's bid , the chances of South Africa and Zimbabwe doing so are remote . |
| 40 | SCO , whose revenues are thought to be double USL 's and whose board reportedly wants to cash out , makes no secret of the fact that it has been contemplating its own initial public offering ( IPO ) for some time . |
| 41 | And if you are ever going to see one of the genuine though attested rarities among the local fauna , a bear , a lynx , or an eagle , the Park is the only place you might do so , though there are thought to be fewer than twenty bears still living in the Pyrenees , and only eight pairs of eagles . |
| 42 | TWO COMPLETELY new organisms have been discovered that are thought to be important contributors to the ever-increasing problem of sexually-transmitted disease — in particular so-called ‘ non-specific genital infections ’ . |
| 43 | Therefore , they are thought to be important regulators of brain development ( reviewed in [ 12 ] ) . |
| 44 | Host factors are thought to be important in determining the severity of the response to this parasite . |
| 45 | The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Although no one is completely sure how , they are thought to be hereditary . |
| 48 | The official inquiry into the accident is now yet complete , but senior officers are thought to be satisfied that Flight Sergeant Pritchard was not at fault . |
| 49 | Often the attraction of broader approaches like counselling is that they are thought to be able to tackle many massive problems at the same time . |
| 50 | In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving . |
| 51 | However , Samsung is beginning to ramp up its i860 effort , there are thought to be 12 of its MagicStation workstations with ISVs in Germany , six in the UK . |
| 52 | Shetlanders are afraid that they might be excluded from this market — with their higher salaries and various company safeguards , incomers are thought to be willing to make higher bids for scarce pieces of land . |
| 53 | The most obvious abuses of a dominant position are thought to be excessive pricing , price discrimination , predatory pricing , and vertical restraints . |
| 54 | The Kestrels breeding in Sussex are thought to be resident , but winter status needs further and more exact investigation ; some changes may have occurred since 1938 . |
| 55 | In Los Angeles , another place where non-Hispanic whites are a dwindling minority , a 62-year-old white businessman is in a run-off for the mayor 's office against the young Asian-American who has for years been thought to be one of California 's most personable Democrats . |
| 56 | It seems that the rolled-up canvas , which had lain on a basement floor for sixty years in the Nice house , had been thought to be unused . |
| 57 | LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another . |
| 58 | Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU . |
| 59 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 60 | On the other hand , its penalty structure might be thought to be preferable to that of New South Wales , for the maximum penalty for each category of offence is higher than in New South Wales and the ten-year maximum for simple sexual assault enables a heavier penalty to be imposed in serious cases which do not come within the higher categories . |