Example sentences of "[be] [adv] think to [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 As a consequence , tax rises are now thought to be inevitable by Whitehall sources .
12 Some are even thought to be dangerous .
13 Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's .
14 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 .
15 The building blocks of matter are the atoms which were originally thought to be indivisible .
16 He carried out experiments on the propagation of short and ultra-short radio waves , which were then thought to be unusable .
17 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 .
18 The source of the mineralising fluids is generally thought to be Carboniferous shale basins adjacent to the carbonate plat-forms which host the mineralisation .
19 Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan .
20 It is also thought to be carcinogenic .
21 Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Active aggression is now thought to be exceptional .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 However , the span of control is now thought to be dependent on :
28 We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other .
29 The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable .
30 Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct .
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