Example sentences of "[was/were] think to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Until recently , UVB rays were thought to be the only ones which caused serious sun damage .
2	Until recently the Antikythera mechanism was thought to be the sole surviving example of mathematical gearing in the Hellenistic tradition .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	In this way , the uncertainty principle allows particles to escape from what was thought to be the ultimate prison , a black hole .
7	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 .
8	The second also reproduces what was thought to be the common law .
9	If the policy regime changes then so will what was thought to be the constant structure .
10	The target was thought to be the Sikh president of the youth wing of India 's ruling Congress Party .

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