Example sentences of "[am/are] think [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week .
2 Particular approaches are thought to be supportive of commercial activity and are adopted with this end in view .
3 Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease .
4 At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] .
5 Judges who thumb their noses at presidents are thought to be good for democracy .
6 In the modelled docked structure , residues 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 of CsA protrude out into the solvent , and are thought to be involved in binding the effector protein , calcineurin .
7 Most mammals apart from man are thought to be unaware of colour , or the differentials between wavelengths in the light to which their eyes are sensitive .
8 If these are thought to be appropriate for the person you are going to be in touch with , then the local Christian bookshop will undoubtedly stock a range .
9 Rules of interpretation are thought to be effective in the orderly ascription of meaning to objects and events .
10 At least two IRA cells are thought to be active on the mainland .
11 What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves .
12 Changes which are identified here are thought to be suggestive of changes which might take place in other areas of Shetland as the construction phase of the oil era winds down , and the oil production phase takes off in earnest .
13 Host factors are thought to be important in determining the severity of the response to this parasite .
14 The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators .
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