Example sentences of "[noun] be thought [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in pairs are thought to be clever dicks , sorry . |
| 2 | Interestingly these regions of the mouse genome are thought to be paralogous or ancestrally related ( 71 ) . |
| 3 | These solutes are thought to be the origin of cements within the subsurface , either as quartz overgrowth cements ( e.g. Sibley & blatt , 1976 ) or as calcite cements . |
| 4 | The Kestrels breeding in Sussex are thought to be resident , but winter status needs further and more exact investigation ; some changes may have occurred since 1938 . |
| 5 | The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment . |
| 6 | ( Meliaceae ) but durian seeds are so damaged that ground-walking animals are thought to be the principal effective agents possibly sun-bears , or even tigers . |
| 7 | As well as the writs issued against the two men , 12 writs were obtained by the army 's solicitors , Slaughter & May — mostly to gain access to confidential documents or accounts where funds are thought to be held . |
| 8 | The Oct-2 proteins are thought to be effectors of octamer-dependent immunoglobulin gene transcription and certain cytokine genes [ 7 ] . |
| 9 | 4.20 Where clients are thought to be or are known to be a risk or danger to themselves , other clients or other people and are admitted to a residential or day care facility , their progress must be explicitly monitored by the officer in charge who should keep the line manager informed . |
| 10 | Islington , Southwark , Camden and Hounslow were thought to be in the bag . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was unclear whether the move was backed by the government of Croatia , since Serbo-Croat negotiations over partitioning Bosnia-Hercegovina were thought to be backed by the respective Presidents [ see p. 38919 ] . |
| 13 | Key variables were thought to be the size of the selected area , the population characteristics and the traffic structure . |
| 14 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 15 | The earlier stations were not as successful as their British counterparts but later designs were thought to be an improvement . |
| 16 | If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The deal is thought to be worth £1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 19 | The deal is thought to be worth 1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 20 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Faulty circulation is thought to be the root cause of the disorder . |
| 23 | 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. |
| 24 | When taken together with walking , cycling is thought to be between ten and forty times as energy efficient , as motorised transport ( Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 25 | The chapter is thought to be the first on this subject in a text of this type . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ( 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 . ) |
| 28 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 29 | The font is thought to be medieval . |
| 30 | It should also be remembered that if an SRO is thought to be acting inappropriately , i.e. if it is subject to regulatory capture , then the SIB can simply revoke its status . |