Example sentences of "[been] thought to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been thought to be ‘ ignorant of the nature of spirits ’ , he says , because we have no ‘ idea ’ of spirit . |
| 2 | Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints . |
| 3 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 4 | Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU . |
| 5 | LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another . |
| 6 | It transpired rather late in the planning of Overlord that what had been thought to be beaches of hard sand actually had bands of exposed clay . |
| 7 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 8 | In Los Angeles , another place where non-Hispanic whites are a dwindling minority , a 62-year-old white businessman is in a run-off for the mayor 's office against the young Asian-American who has for years been thought to be one of California 's most personable Democrats . |
| 9 | It seems that the rolled-up canvas , which had lain on a basement floor for sixty years in the Nice house , had been thought to be unused . |
| 10 | In order to change the understanding of women , or enlarge the conception as to what is to be considered authentically female , we should have to apply what have been thought to be characteristically male attributes to a female symbol . |
| 11 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 12 | It also helped in identifying important variables which had not previously been thought to be particularly interesting . |
| 13 | Article 86 , by contrast , has no section 3 to permit exemptions , which has sometimes been thought to be a weakness . |
| 14 | That might have been thought to be intune with the Cold War music of the era . |
| 15 | ( Prior to the mass exodus of Albanians to Italy , the Italian government had been thought to be delaying the delivery of food aid to avoid giving a pre-election boost to the communist regime 's popularity . ) |
| 16 | There is a further indication that this is the right solution ; one of the few archaeological finds to have come from the battlefield at Vézeronce is a fine helmet , which has been thought to be of Ostrogothic workmanship . |