Example sentences of "[noun] think to [be] " in BNC.

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1 BP PROPERTIES has sold a central London office to EIE International , the Japanese property investment group , in a deal thought to be worth about £200m .
2 The worst difficulty came with his brother Frank , whom Ramsey thought to be the cleverest person he knew .
3 Known for his baby face and beloved Koch and Heckler sub-machine gun , Arkan controls a highly-disciplined shock force thought to be the most able and ruthless Serbian guerrilla group to have emerged during Yugoslavia 's tumultuous collapse .
4 Each input data source is assumed to be characterized by an error model that represents reasonable estimates of the levels and nature of the data uncertainty thought to be present .
5 The UN has targeted eight of 90 buildings at Al Atheer , a multi-million pound complex thought to be the centre of President Saddam Hussein 's attempt at a nuclear bomb .
6 One of their main assignments was to contact Edoardo Amaldi , a physicist thought to be in hiding near Rome .
7 He made his way to Nashville , no doubt to solidify a country-music vote thought to be lost by his rival Bill Clinton ever since the Democrat 's wife made a flip reference to a song by Tammy Wynette .
8 The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial .
9 Several parts of Ayrshire had rock thought to be good for making curling stones but the rock which was , and still is , most popular is from the islet of Ailsa Craig .
10 In addition , several of the regions conserved between the SbcD proteins are also present in T4 gp 47 and T5 gp D12 , two phage proteins thought to be exonucleases ( 8 , 9 , 10 ) .
11 While not wishing to comment on the economic arguments for communism in terms of its capacity to create more wealth more equally distributed , an aim Freud thought to be very important for the future , he thought that communism contained an ‘ illusion ’ about man 's nature .
12 Six nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion monastery at Daventry end their hen house occupation to prevent the slaughter of 5,000 hens thought to be infected with salmonella .
13 On the ground , international observers will draw attention to any restoration work thought to be unsuitable or harmful .
14 Last week , sources within HP confirmed that September 15th is the day the firm has chosen to cut and run to the end of its year with two new workstation models thought to be based upon the 7100 , possibly a 740 Coral II ( Coral is the 750 ) and 725 King Cobra II ( King Cobra is the 730 ) .
15 Cerebral areas thought to be devoted to motor aspects of speech planning and execution ( for example supplementary motor area ( SMA ) , cerebellum and possibly primary sensorimotor areas of mouth and larynx ( BA 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 ) and BA 6 ) were activated by our experimental tasks even though there was no overt speech .
16 I received an assurance today from police and Army commanders that there will be an enhanced security presence in those areas thought to be most at risk in the light of last night 's attacks in Belfast .
17 Cameras are carried to photograph trawlers thought to be abusing fishing limits and vessels suspected of drug-running .
18 But the conjunction of hostility to competition and hostility to the kind of authoritarianism thought to be implied in ‘ old-fashioned ’ teaching was a powerful influence in many comprehensive schools in the late l960s and l970s .
19 Only this August , an Arab extremist thought to be a member of Hizbollah died in a London hotel while strapping a bomb to his body .
20 At this stage the selector should note down as much information as possible against each title , including the reason it was marked as a possible purchase — because recommended in a select bibliography , for instance , or as a replacement for a much-used copy on the shelves — and perhaps some form of starring system to identify titles thought to be outstanding of their kind .
21 Questions were asked after each problem , and at the completion of the task , to obtain the following objective information : 1 ) the ease of use of each program , 2 ) the insight gained from using each technique , 3 ) the aid given by each technique in attaining a solution , 4 ) the user preference , and dislike , for the techniques , 5 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving insight , 6 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving the best design , and 7 ) the subject 's engineering and computing background , and knowledge of the polar second moment of area ; this being the sectional properties of a component that allows the shearing stresses to be deduced from the applied torque .
22 Questions were asked after each problem , and at the completion of the task , to obtain the following objective information : 1 ) the ease of use of each program , 2 ) the insight gained from using each technique , 3 ) the aid given by each technique in attaining a solution , 4 ) the user preference , and dislike , for the techniques , 5 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving insight , 6 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving the best design , and 7 ) the subject 's engineering and computing background , and knowledge of the polar second moment of area ; this being the sectional properties of a component that allows the shearing stresses to be deduced from the applied torque .
23 The middle-horned breed was described as a group of ‘ local varieties ’ of which the most noted were the Devon , Sussex and Hereford , the last two being considered varieties of the Devon , with the Hereford thought to be the least active and hardy under the yoke but better for fattening .
24 POLICE are appealing for shopkeepers to help them trace an axe and a sledgehammer thought to be the weapons used in the murder of Liverpool couple Jean Larkin and Garry Pettitt .
25 This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ .
26 In seperate incidents , two farmers were injured by letter bombs thought to be from animal rights extremists .
27 Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ , is now attributed by several scholars to Parmigianino after a photograph taken through the old mount revealed an architectural sketch and handwriting thought to be Parmigianino 's ( £52,000 , est. £20–25,000 ) .
28 Mayor David Dinkins expressed his sadness over the incident and promised more resources to tackle the hundreds of unlicensed clubs thought to be operating in the city , many of which were violating safety regulations .
29 It has been suggested that he also used birds as his trademark and a carving at Trull in Somerset shows a large ‘ W ’ supported by two birds thought to be woodpecker ; a medieval pun ?
30 He shows us the modifications which objects thought to be inanimate impose on each other …
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