Example sentences of "[pron] be thought [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Astra was stolen by 5 teenagers , some of whom are thought to be as young as 13 . |
| 2 | I was thought to be getting above myself because I refused to sight read a scene . |
| 3 | The aim : to persuade countries to reduce their output of greenhouse gases , which are thought to be warming the world faster than ever before . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that Shetlanders ' images of social class vary extensively from individual to individual ( typically in relation to the ‘ things ’ which are thought to ‘ give ’ people their class , and the elements which are thought to be consequence of class membership ) . |
| 5 | This section provides a brief overview of those social abilities which are thought to be development precursors to the emergence of spoken language . |
| 6 | The activity posited by Brentano , secondly , is common not only to seeing and other perception , thinking in the sense of deliberating or judging , and also remembering , intending , and deciding , all of which are ordinarily thought to be in different ways active , but also pain and other sensations , dreaming , experiencing an emotion , and being subject to a mood , all of which are thought to be in different ways passive . |
| 7 | It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent . |
| 8 | But this does not rule out a high response to real wage changes which are thought to be temporary : for example , suppliers of labour may well want to take advantage of a temporarily high real wage by supplying more labour , taking leisure ( that is , supplying less labour ) when the real wage has fallen back . |
| 9 | In the earth sciences this has resulted in decisions to reduce the number of departments offering Ph D degrees , and to concentrate funding in the remaining centres , which are thought to be centres of excellence . |
| 10 | Propagated contractions , which are thought to be predominantly under voluntary control , were detected more often in the proximal oesophagus whereas non-propagated contractions prevailed in the mid and distal esophagus . |
| 11 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 12 | A development which starts from the humane desire to prevent severe handicap could lead to demands by parents for genetic interventions to produce traits which are thought to be culturally desirable , such as maleness and fair skin . |
| 13 | Speaking at the UN , he also said that the agency is developing procedures to carry out surprise inspections at nuclear plants which are thought to be engaged in illicit research . |
| 14 | Ethnic-minority children who are thought by their teachers to be having difficulties at school are being assessed with tests which are thought to be fundamentally flawed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Here , as before , we see how claims which were thought to be just and well-attested in practice , were in danger of extinction from the lack of the documents which met the requirements of a new age . |
| 17 | The species difference between animals and human beings can give rise to quite different reactions , as in the case of penicillin , digitalis , and aspirin , and with drugs which were thought to be safe after pre-clinical tests upon animals , such as thalidomide , clioquinol , osmosin , opren , and eraldin , the results were human death and tragedy . |
| 18 | It claims to eliminate toxins from the body , to restore a normal potassium and sodium balance in cells ( which is thought to be disturbed in cancer patients ) , to boost liver function ( also affected by the disease ) and to reactivate certain enzymes . |
| 19 | The drift-net catch of juvenile in 1988–89 was estimated at between 29,000 and 49,000 tonnes , which is thought to be unsustainable . |
| 20 | Drugs evaluated by this method include D-cycloserine which is thought to be involved in the formation of memory . |
| 21 | This may be compared with the conception rate for Down 's Syndrome , which is thought to be one in 200 . |
| 22 | In providing reasonable access to a representative range of published material , a librarian is required to take note of the needs and interests of the public as a whole ; from time to time pressures , which this Association would feel to be undue , have been brought to bear on a librarian to discontinue the acquisition and display of material , which is thought to be unacceptable and which thus might prohibit the service to certain minorities whose interests the libraries are equally supposed to serve . |
| 23 | If the nodule develops into something resembling a small cauliflower then it could be lymphocystis , which is thought to be caused by a virus and is somewhat akin to warts . |
| 24 | Paired activation of the parallel and climbing fibre inputs results in long-term depression of the parallel fibre-Purkinje cell synapse , which is thought to be mediated through the mGlu receptor that is coupled to InsP 3 formation ( Box 1 ) . |
| 25 | SNI 's data dictionary is based upon the US Information Resource Dictionary System model , which is more suited to development , according to Informix , than the European Portable Common Tools Environment dictionary model , which is thought to be stronger at run-time . |
| 26 | Anil Gadre , vice president of systems product marketing at Sun told Unigram a couple of weeks ago that a Sparc version of Novell 's Portable NetWare would arrive soon : meanwhile it 's thought the two will shortly announce NetWare SunLink to run on top of Sun 's Solaris 2.0 for Intel Corp platforms , which is thought to be a key part of Sun 's bid to capture a share of the Unix-on-Intel market . |
| 27 | The Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides for a similar Attorney-General 's reference where a sentence which is thought to be too lenient is imposed . |
| 28 | Roy Clements wanted it for his collection which is thought to be the largest in Britain . |
| 29 | As well as being aesthetically pleasing , trees absorb carbon dioxide which is thought to be making holes in the ozone layer . |
| 30 | This is because this analysis excludes the effect of changes in basal acid secretion , which is thought to be independent of gastrin dependent . |