Example sentences of "think to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's thought to have cost the Dickens and Jones department store £100,000 in lost business . |
| 2 | DARLINGTON 'S newest entertainment venue opened yesterday after a refit thought to have cost about £500,000 . |
| 3 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Toshiba Corp and NEC are thought to have invested some $200m in preparation for development and fabrication of MIPS ' next-generation R5000 and R10000 RISCs ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 5 | Reports from rebel-held territory that some 1,000 civilians had been killed by government troops were strongly denied ; however the number of dead in fighting was thought to have reached several hundred . |
| 6 | The vugs , fractures and intercrystalline pores , on the other hand , are thought to have formed in response to late leaching ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 7 | Brecciated carbonate mudstones are also present at this locality but are thought to have formed as debris flows during deposition rather than by solution-collapse . |
| 8 | They are thought to have formed by partial melting of subducted oceanic crust — a process that would have been much more widespread early in Earth history than at present , owing to the higher thermal gradients prevailing at that time . |
| 9 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 10 | Israel 's decision to sign the MTCR together with an undertaking to implement a 1987 decision not to renew military contacts with South Africa was also thought to have affected Bush 's decision . |
| 11 | In fact , the equation is more challenging the other way round : Pound thinks Joyce a Phenomenon deserving equal attention with Mussolini — a temperate judgement that the years may be thought to have vindicated . |
| 12 | Ba'al was thought to have descended into the earth and the sacrifices and energy invigorated him and brought about his resurrection . |
| 13 | Ms Pavord supports her ‘ purist ’ proposal by arguing that the National Trust already owns two ‘ real ’ houses — Dyrham and Hanbury — designed by Talman , ‘ the first architect of Uppark ’ and two — Felbrigg and Nostell — by Paine , ‘ thought to have made the saloon at Uppark ’ . |
| 14 | Any estate owner who achieved this might be thought to have made a notable bargain . |
| 15 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 16 | Camerini , a friend of owner Count Robert de Beaumont , is thought to have made phone demands from the villa after snatching Melodie . |
| 17 | Souness , who is thought to have made special plans to be at tonight 's European Cup Winners ' Cup match against Limassol , kept a low profile in court . |
| 18 | Since clerics had been essentially servants of the Crown rather than of the Church , the change may not be thought to have made much difference . |
| 19 | Only enhanced staffing and , in particular , the PNP coordinators were thought to have made a slight to moderate impact . |
| 20 | Kuwait was thought to have made a major financial grant to the new Iraqi regime as an incentive to improve relations , which , whilst remaining peaceful during the 1960s , were nevertheless marred by a dispute centring on Iraq 's interest in Bubiyan and Warba . |
| 21 | Although the country had extensive overseas investments , the government-owned Air Nauru and the Nauru Pacific shipping line were thought to have made losses in recent years of hundreds of millions of dollars . |
| 22 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 23 | Indeed , at least one unspecified outfit is thought to have reckoned ANDF commercially viable now . |
| 24 | Several other Scottish education authorities — including Dumfries and Galloway , Highland , Tayside and Strathclyde — have already developed strong anti-smoking policies , though none is thought to have rejected the case for smokers ' areas . |
| 25 | Joan Main was thought to have moved to South Wales after she disappeared , but despite a nationwide appeal for information the police have never tracked her down . |
| 26 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 27 | The sculptor mason now thought to have built it , Valentine Strong , whose building family owned stone quarries at nearby Little Barrington , will long be remembered for his witty epitaph in Fairford churchyard : |
| 28 | As Defence Minister at the height of the Intifada in 1988 , Rabin had again taken a hard line , and Labour was widely thought to have gained popularity after he defeated the more doveish Shimon Peres ( his successor in 1977 ) to win back the party chairmanship in February 1992 [ see p. 38787 ] . |
| 29 | The first case , a female , which died in 1989 , is thought to have contracted the disease from feed made from crushed animal remains . |
| 30 | The ambulance was on its way to another accident about a mile away , where a woman driver 's thought to have skidded off the road in heavy rain . |