Example sentences of "think to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] .
32 Male dysfunction due to fear or anxiety about such a condition is much more likely to be responsible ; and female dysfunction or dissatisfaction is often mistakenly thought to be due to it when the true causes lie elsewhere .
33 The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress .
34 All the food available to animals and man was thought to be due to the rain which fell from the heavens , the arrival of which was dependent on the will of the god Ba'al .
35 The anomalous heat is thought to be due to solar energy , which penetrates the surface ice in spring and warms the depths .
36 The evident SOC retreat from the more moderate stance of December was thought to be due to the influence of a hardline faction which feared that the peace plan would open the way to systematic Khmer Rouge infiltration under unwitting UN protection .
37 This was thought to be due to the lack of the acid neutralising effect of the saliva .
38 The patients were referred to the gastroenterology unit of the Adelaide Children 's Hospital for evaluation of symptoms thought to be due to gastro-oesophageal reflux or a feeding disorder .
39 The etiology is unknown , but is thought to be due to the dissolution and aspiration of dead or dying worm material into the alveoli .
40 Each input data source is assumed to be characterized by an error model that represents reasonable estimates of the levels and nature of the data uncertainty thought to be present .
41 Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) .
42 Painful bowel movements were thought to be present if the child complained of pain during defecation or when the child exhibited screaming or crying in anticipation of , or during , defecation , if the parent reported blood on the stool or if the child had an anal fissure present at the time of examination .
43 Stool withholding was thought to be present if the child exhibited a certain behaviour at the time of defecation , often termed ‘ the duty dance ’ .
44 Reserves are known to be low in Sudan , and thought to be low in Ethiopia .
45 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 .
46 ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . )
47 The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society .
48 The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real .
49 An announcement by the FPR-LZ in April 1991 that it was willing to demobilize was thought to be conditional on the government agreeing to electoral and legal reforms .
50 Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct .
51 In 1951 a well-documented eruption of this kind took place on Mt Lamington in Papua , another of those volcanoes which was thought to be extinct until something nasty happened .
52 Elsewhere in the world , other species thought to be extinct have been rediscovered in the wild .
53 Several species of Australian amphibian , amongst them some of the most beautiful and interesting in the world , have died out and are now thought to be extinct .
54 The opal allotoca , a two-inch fish species thought to be extinct , has been found alive and well in a large Mexican cattle pond .
55 , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia .
56 Wigan are hoping to complete a deal for a top Aussie centre , thought to be Western Suburbs ' Andrew Farrar , in time for their first home match of the season against Hull on Sunday week .
57 It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father .
58 At one time charcoal , coke and soot — all forms of carbon — were thought to be amorphous .
59 This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ .
60 There is no evidence that any Continental work is even known about , let alone thought to be relevant .
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