Example sentences of "what be thought [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chemical scheme combines what are thought to be the most important O x , NO x , HO x , ClO x , BrO x , CHO x and SO x ( ref. 17 ) reactions with the recommended kinetic data . |
| 2 | The word ‘ model ’ implies a physical description that does not attempt to be complete or accurate in detail but that encapsulates what are thought to be the central features of the phenomenon . |
| 3 | A former Ministry of Defence worker , has been found guilty of accepting one and a half million pounds in backhanders from arms companies , in what 's thought to be the biggest ever corruption case . |
| 4 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 5 | Among the objects to be sold are what is thought to be the only signed painting by Petrus Troueil , the portrait of Sir Francis Ottley and his family ( est. £40–60,000 ) , Sir Joshua Reynolds 's ‘ Admiral Cotes ’ ( est. £15–20,000 ) and other paintings by John Hoppner , James Ward , Michael Dahl and Sir Godfrey Kneller . |
| 6 | Back with Miss Maine I was shown what was thought to be the trickiest of all the work I must do . |
| 7 | This had happened at what was thought to be the king 's deathbed on 6 March 1093 . |
| 8 | In this way , the uncertainty principle allows particles to escape from what was thought to be the ultimate prison , a black hole . |
| 9 | The second also reproduces what was thought to be the common law . |
| 10 | If the policy regime changes then so will what was thought to be the constant structure . |
| 11 | By the evening of Jan. 26 between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 barrels of oil were estimated to have poured into the Gulf , in what was thought to be the worst oil spillage in history [ for March 1989 Exxon Valdez spill see pp. 36541 ; 36606 ] . |
| 12 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |