Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly these regions of the mouse genome are thought to be paralogous or ancestrally related ( 71 ) . |
| 2 | The club are thinking about him and rooting for him . ’ |
| 3 | As a result of this , Palmer had in the back of his mind been thinking about muon catalysed fusion , and when the newly arrived Jones announced his talk , Palmer naturally took notice and went along to listen . |
| 4 | Had the Home Office research shown that the majority of offences within reported crime were thought to be committed by people on probation , under SSD supervision , or on community programmes , one could have understood a post-trial response . |
| 5 | The deal is thought to be worth £1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 6 | The deal is thought to be worth 1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 7 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 8 | The programme is thought to be less successful in Zimbabwe , since the denser vegetation means that poachers may not be able to see that the animal has no horn until they have already shot it . |
| 9 | Faulty circulation is thought to be the root cause of the disorder . |
| 10 | The point to notice in this mechanistic philosophy is that the mind is thought of as passive : |
| 11 | Persistent aggression is a deviation not only from social convention , but from the way people ‘ naturally ’ are , since the mind is thought to be properly in control of the soul ( cf. |
| 12 | When taken together with walking , cycling is thought to be between ten and forty times as energy efficient , as motorised transport ( Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 13 | An imperfect analogy is to think of D1 and D2 acting as one way water valves , with C5 as a piston . |
| 14 | Money or the lack of it is what had modelled the railwayman 's thinking in the formative years of BR . |
| 15 | The Roslavl' party cell is thinking of recruiting up to seventy-five soldiers from the town garrison in order to collect potatoes from the area as a tax in kind . |
| 16 | The chapter is thought to be the first on this subject in a text of this type . |
| 17 | Bal is thinking of using the money for a holiday and is looking forward to submitting more ideas in the future . |
| 18 | Blues and greens , for example , are considered to be cool and restful ; yellow is thought of as sunny and gay ; while red , orange and tans are associated with warmth , as are peach and apricot . |
| 19 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries . |
| 20 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 21 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 22 | The font is thought to be medieval . |
| 23 | The latter figure is thought to be between 63,000 and 65,000 . |
| 24 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 25 | Its mode of action is thought to be its ability to potentiate the defensive barriers of gastrointestinal mucosa . |
| 26 | This enhancement is thought to be associated with the extraction of additional information about the stimuli in the attended ear . |
| 27 | In Washington in mid-May , Martin Indyk , Middle East guru in the White House 's National Security Council , gave a talk on the Clinton administration 's thinking on the Gulf . |
| 28 | And fashion store Etam is thought to be on the brink of signing a letting agreement involving its switch from its Northgate store into the Cornmill . |
| 29 | James Butterworth followed the hooligan careers of similar boys — ‘ Sam Smiler ’ and ‘ Thomas Tiddler ’ — along with the apprenticeship of ‘ Tiddler Junior ’ , because the British hooligan was thought to be getting younger in his time , as in ours : |
| 30 | For all these reasons the future was thought to be uncertain . |