Example sentences of "[was/were] think to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 2 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 3 | Conventional scientific wisdom has held that whales are relatively immune from the effects of toxic chemicals , because such contaminants were thought to be safely stored in the blubber , a tissue considered to be fairly inert . |
| 4 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
| 5 | My problems are precisely the same as my father 's , but the climate 's different now : in those days , people who had large houses were thought to be plutocrats who ran society , the Establishment if you like . |
| 6 | In the 15th century the town and its palace were thought to be the most beautiful in all Italy . |
| 7 | Two others , Des Walker and Brett Williams , were thought to be playing in spite of injuries , and the England defender was unable to continue beyond half-time . |
| 8 | For 84% of the farms the practical type courses already provided by the ATB were thought to be the most suitable method of providing training . |
| 9 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |
| 10 | Given that membership of the school was universally perceived as a privilege , social and disciplinary problems were minimal and few special arrangements for pastoral care or counselling were thought to be necessary . |
| 11 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 12 | But you , with Mr Attlee , were thought to be the most unworldly of post-war prime ministers on that . |
| 13 | None of them was seen as capable of safely preparing a meal ; seven would wander away from home if not watched ; four were substantially incontinent ; five were thought to be at risk with gas or fires ; six were physically frail or had mobility difficulties . |
| 14 | This is reflected in the tendency to look back to a ‘ golden age ’ when these societies were thought to be more peaceful and law abiding . |
| 15 | The earlier stations were not as successful as their British counterparts but later designs were thought to be an improvement . |
| 16 | Because the cats wandered about , often at night , they were thought to be either the supernatural servants of the witches , or else the witches themselves , transformed into cat-shape to aid their nocturnal travels when seeking revenge . |
| 17 | Of these , 371,000 were thought to be Protestant , 271,000 Catholic and 5,000 Jews . |
| 18 | While the Danzig Poles were thought to be docile and largely invisible , it is clear that their slumbering sense of identity had been roused by anti-Polish policies . |
| 19 | The tensions of wartime could easily turn anger against refugees who were thought to be getting privileged treatment . |
| 20 | Key variables were thought to be the size of the selected area , the population characteristics and the traffic structure . |
| 21 | Later still the ‘ heat waves ’ were thought to be produced by catastrophism — recent calculations by Tokajumi Matsui and Yutaka Abe of the University of Tokyo suggest that billions of tons of meteorites crashed into Earth to drive off the volatile materials and to turn the surface into seas of magma . |
| 22 | Often , ill or retarded babies were thought to be changelings and were miserably tortured in an attempt to force them to revert to fairy form . |
| 23 | Birthmarks , or other natural defects , were thought to be marks or bruises left by elves , and Queen Margaret insulted Shakespeare 's Richard III accordingly : |
| 24 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 25 | They were thought to be suitable for working on any part of the system . |
| 26 | No German warships were thought to be in the immediate area and only some four squadrons of fighters and bombers — an estimated 37 planes — were flying from Herdia , Stavanger , and Trondheim . |
| 27 | These unmarried women were thought to be a good influence on the girls and good role models . |
| 28 | Those envisaged under the previous Asylum Bill were thought to be inoperable . |
| 29 | He went on to add that disgruntled acid house partygoers were thought to be behind the vandalism . |
| 30 | Without a demand for services , no services were thought to be necessary . |