Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] think [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in pairs are thought to be clever dicks , sorry . |
| 2 | Strategically , we need to understand what the clients are thinking to be able to deliver the services which they want . ’ |
| 3 | The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators . |
| 4 | Shetlanders are afraid that they might be excluded from this market — with their higher salaries and various company safeguards , incomers are thought to be willing to make higher bids for scarce pieces of land . |
| 5 | SCO , whose revenues are thought to be double USL 's and whose board reportedly wants to cash out , makes no secret of the fact that it has been contemplating its own initial public offering ( IPO ) for some time . |
| 6 | Pesticides washed from farms and gardens into creeks and ponds are thought to be responsible . |
| 7 | The official inquiry into the accident is now yet complete , but senior officers are thought to be satisfied that Flight Sergeant Pritchard was not at fault . |
| 8 | Some of the representations are thought to be actual portraits . |
| 9 | Judges who thumb their noses at presidents are thought to be good for democracy . |
| 10 | The differences are thought to be functional differences in the nervous system . |
| 11 | Bangladeshi babies are thought to be vulnerable , and they sleep close to other people both day and night ; at night they are either in the mother 's bed or in a cot next to it , a practice also reported by Farooqi et al . |
| 12 | Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | Host factors are thought to be important in determining the severity of the response to this parasite . |
| 14 | Coun. David Lyonette ( Lab ) said he was surprised to find that bus diesel engines are thought to be major contributors towards town centre air pollution . |
| 15 | Particular approaches are thought to be supportive of commercial activity and are adopted with this end in view . |
| 16 | Keith Pringle ( ‘ Gender politics ' 4 March ) asserts that because of male socialisation and the fact that 77 per cent of abusers are thought to be male , all men may have some potential to commit sexual abuse . |
| 17 | At least two IRA cells are thought to be active on the mainland . |