Example sentences of "[was/were] think to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These unmarried women were thought to be a good influence on the girls and good role models . |
| 2 | Until recently , UVB rays were thought to be the only ones which caused serious sun damage . |
| 3 | He went to see a young clergyman , seized by what was thought to be a dangerous illness : |
| 4 | The sudden onset of severe weather conditions was thought to be a frequent result of disturbance to a site . |
| 5 | One of the brown immigrants deliberately poured some of his coffee over the pale slab of sugar crusted fruit pie he was eating , and this was thought to be a brilliant piece of improvised humour . |
| 6 | Now , Fiona was thought to be a suitable bride for my father-just the right age , pretty and vivacious enough it was thought to appeal to a man who was beginning to be known as a confirmed bachelor . ’ |
| 7 | At one time pouchitis was thought to be a serious complication of pouch construction and even an argument against resorative proctocolectomy . |
| 8 | This ceasefire was reported to be holding on Oct 21 , although poor weather was thought to be a major factor . |
| 9 | In February 1991 E. was bruised and it was thought to be a non-accidental injury . |
| 10 | The word ‘ mithra ’ was also used to describe a friend , and this god was thought to be a true friend of man , protecting and warming him in life and death . |
| 11 | On June 14 , 1989 , the largest and most expensive US space booster , the Titan-4 , was launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , successfully deploying what was thought to be a secret military satellite capable of providing early warning of nuclear attack . |
| 12 | A second area of made ground was present to the east of Langloan and was thought to be a backfilled clay borrow pit . |
| 13 | The change was thought to be a direct consequence of the protest action taken by conscripts in May . |
| 14 | Mistaken biological beliefs , such that the male alone was thought to be a full human being , underlay western culture , making this seem the more plausible . |
| 15 | Rapid growth was thought to be a likely candidate so the researchers measured the expansion of cells in the trap leaves by marking leaves with evenly spaced ink dots . |
| 16 | More specifically , the scholastic conception of scientia , or scientific knowledge , was thought to be an inappropriate model for empirical knowledge of nature . |
| 17 | The conditions of mass unemployment certainly helped to support the feeling of leniency , in that crime was thought to be an inevitable consequence of poverty , so that there was an active sympathy for the young unemployed whose miserable condition was further highlighted in a perceived increase of suicides among the young . |
| 18 | Until recently the Antikythera mechanism was thought to be the sole surviving example of mathematical gearing in the Hellenistic tradition . |
| 19 | In cases where life imprisonment was thought to be the appropriate sentence , the trial judge would still specify — in open court — the number of years to be spent in prison , taking the gravity of the offence into account , and release would be determined by a judicial tribunal . |
| 20 | Although that sort of thing is nominally catered for by most electrical equipment , using spike suppression and smoothing circuitry , I reckoned that this particular computer was not up to the job of coping with the dirty mains , and so an uninterruptible power source was thought to be the only feasible answer . |
| 21 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 22 | In this way , the uncertainty principle allows particles to escape from what was thought to be the ultimate prison , a black hole . |
| 23 | As distinct from a personal tutelary spirit , who watched over an individual brave , the manitou patronised the entire tribe and was thought to be the long-ago founder of that tribe . |
| 24 | The second also reproduces what was thought to be the common law . |
| 25 | If the policy regime changes then so will what was thought to be the constant structure . |
| 26 | The target was thought to be the Sikh president of the youth wing of India 's ruling Congress Party . |