Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] think [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in pairs are thought to be clever dicks , sorry . |
| 2 | Interestingly these regions of the mouse genome are thought to be paralogous or ancestrally related ( 71 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Strategically , we need to understand what the clients are thinking to be able to deliver the services which they want . ’ |
| 5 | Prospects for new work are thought to be good . |
| 6 | The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators . |
| 7 | The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cuts in benefits and a public sector pay freeze are thought to be likely . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Northumbrian , Wessex , Southern and Yorkshire are thought to be vulnerable . |
| 12 | Pesticides washed from farms and gardens into creeks and ponds are thought to be responsible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One hundred and twenty people are thought to be dead and more than fifty are injured in what 's thought to be China 's worst air disaster . |
| 16 | Some of the representations are thought to be actual portraits . |
| 17 | Judges who thumb their noses at presidents are thought to be good for democracy . |
| 18 | Most mammals apart from man are thought to be unaware of colour , or the differentials between wavelengths in the light to which their eyes are sensitive . |
| 19 | Rules of interpretation are thought to be effective in the orderly ascription of meaning to objects and events . |
| 20 | The differences are thought to be functional differences in the nervous system . |
| 21 | Bangladeshi babies are thought to be vulnerable , and they sleep close to other people both day and night ; at night they are either in the mother 's bed or in a cot next to it , a practice also reported by Farooqi et al . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Host factors are thought to be important in determining the severity of the response to this parasite . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Particular approaches are thought to be supportive of commercial activity and are adopted with this end in view . |
| 26 | The most obvious abuses of a dominant position are thought to be excessive pricing , price discrimination , predatory pricing , and vertical restraints . |
| 27 | Dietary deficiency , low circulating oestrogens , hypercortisolism , laxative misuse , and disturbed acid-base balance are thought to be responsible . |
| 28 | If the effects of marking to the market are thought to be substantial , these can be reduced by tailing the futures position used in the arbitrage . |
| 29 | Keith Pringle ( ‘ Gender politics ' 4 March ) asserts that because of male socialisation and the fact that 77 per cent of abusers are thought to be male , all men may have some potential to commit sexual abuse . |
| 30 | At least two IRA cells are thought to be active on the mainland . |