Example sentences of "think to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 62 | 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 . |
| 63 | He shows us the modifications which objects thought to be inanimate impose on each other … |
| 64 | While regarded as able and industrious , senior staff are also thought to be remote , invisible , and above personal contact . |
| 65 | Household waste , once thought to be harmless debris , is now recognised as being polluting and hazardous . |
| 66 | Most are thought to be harmless , but about a dozen appear to be toxic . |
| 67 | This separating layer is undoubtedly mainly a protein and was originally thought to be similar to keratin which is the protein in hair . |
| 68 | The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week . |
| 69 | Little information is available on the developmental cycle of this genus , but it is thought to be similar to that of the genus Trichonema . |
| 70 | Wimpey refused to quantify the additional charge it has taken for its involvement in the Channel Tunnel project , but it is thought to be similar to the £8 million announced by its fellow Chunnel contractor , Balfour Beatty , recently . |
| 71 | Thus the observer looking for evidence of ‘ knowledge , skills , or expertise ’ in the activities of the specialist team might see it in their tendency , relative to the generic team , to visit more and to recommend and provide a wider range of services ; to make fewer offers of service that are refused ; and to encounter fewer occasions on which re-assessment is thought to be necessary . |
| 72 | Given that membership of the school was universally perceived as a privilege , social and disciplinary problems were minimal and few special arrangements for pastoral care or counselling were thought to be necessary . |
| 73 | Without a demand for services , no services were thought to be necessary . |
| 74 | A casting session is then arranged and the location viewed if this is thought to be necessary . |
| 75 | These show that every publication has a class number consisting of at least three digits , but the system permits further sub-divisions allowing as fine a division as is thought to be necessary . |
| 76 | If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself . |
| 77 | A period of three years was thought to be necessary for census-taking and drawing up electoral rolls . |
| 78 | Large integrated securities houses were thought to be necessary as an average size broker without a market-maker could feasibly find itself advising on equities , yet the business of transactions could easily be carried out elsewhere . |
| 79 | On the ground , international observers will draw attention to any restoration work thought to be unsuitable or harmful . |
| 80 | Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers . |
| 81 | This was an attempt to retain some of the advantages of the gold standard , since stable rates of exchange were thought to be beneficial to the conduct of trade and other international transactions , and yet adjustments in the exchange rate were deemed desirable for a country facing a permanent payments imbalance . |
| 82 | Librarians recognize the need for an appropriate balance to be maintained within the materials which they make available to reflect differing extremes or shades of opinion on matters which might be thought to be contentious . |
| 83 | While the Danzig Poles were thought to be docile and largely invisible , it is clear that their slumbering sense of identity had been roused by anti-Polish policies . |
| 84 | In Malaysia , a single tiger whisker ground up in the animal 's flesh or bone is thought to be powerful enough to kill an enemy . |
| 85 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
| 86 | Officers from two police forces are now hunting the attcker who 's thought to be black , around thirty , six feet tall , of muscular build . |
| 87 | Coun. David Lyonette ( Lab ) said he was surprised to find that bus diesel engines are thought to be major contributors towards town centre air pollution . |
| 88 | I mean in the past in has always turned out that what people have thought to be elementary turns out never to be elementary . |
| 89 | For all these reasons the future was thought to be uncertain . |
| 90 | Drugs evaluated by this method include D-cycloserine which is thought to be involved in the formation of memory . |