Example sentences of "[be] [adv] think [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rational thought and behaviour are generally thought to be dependent in some ways upon an ability to reason logically . |
| 2 | Engineers and ceremonial officers are usually thought to be solemn people . |
| 3 | Look here , the there 's a programme on about er , Rembrandt here and it said of the ni , nine hundred and eighty eight Rembrandts in nineteen thirteen , only around three hundred are still thought to be genuine to a display of art |
| 4 | The proximal colon and the small intestine are also thought to be dysfunctional in IBS . |
| 5 | While regarded as able and industrious , senior staff are also thought to be remote , invisible , and above personal contact . |
| 6 | In other words , there is extensive support in Britain and many other western states for government welfare and economic programmes which help the ‘ deserving ’ poor , and are also thought to be credible and realistic . |
| 7 | As well as the low-end K2 boxes , Sequent will also be launching a series of high-end , Pentium-ready systems that are also thought to be NT-capable . |
| 8 | Moore has already been snubbed by her parents while other members of her family are also thought to be furious at her marriage to a loyalist murderer from Belfast 's Sandy Row . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Scientists have called for an urgent review of recently set government safety limits which are now thought to be inadequate . |
| 11 | There are now thought to be 20–25 tigers left in southern China , with a few more of the Siberian variety left in the north . |
| 12 | As a consequence , tax rises are now thought to be inevitable by Whitehall sources . |
| 13 | Some are even thought to be dangerous . |
| 14 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 15 | Some gods , while keeping their usual forms , were also thought to be manifest in a living sacred animal , who was regarded as the Ba or power of god and was a cult image , herald and intermediary . |
| 16 | The building blocks of matter are the atoms which were originally thought to be indivisible . |
| 17 | He carried out experiments on the propagation of short and ultra-short radio waves , which were then thought to be unusable . |
| 18 | The longer scheme is widely thought to be better and I should like it to be more at the centre of the proposals , as I want the environment as a whole to be at the centre . |
| 19 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 20 | This once-for-all improvement in the relative wage of women coincided with the implementation of the Equal Pay Act , and this is generally thought to be more than a coincidence ( see Zabalza and Tzannatos , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | The source of the mineralising fluids is generally thought to be Carboniferous shale basins adjacent to the carbonate plat-forms which host the mineralisation . |
| 22 | Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan . |
| 23 | It is also thought to be carcinogenic . |
| 24 | Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He 's been nicknamed the M25 robber because he 's also thought to be responsible for up to 20 armed raids near the M25 around London . |
| 27 | Active aggression is now thought to be exceptional . |
| 28 | Darwin 's own account of the unrestrained ‘ law of battle ’ in animals readily fits in with the theory of natural selection ; therefore , as his account of the law of battle is now thought to be wrong , we are left with the problem of reconciling new observation and established theory . |
| 29 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price . |
| 30 | However , the span of control is now thought to be dependent on : |