Example sentences of "[adv] thought [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia . |
| 2 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 3 | It is fundamentally important that these 12 Steps are actually worked rather than recited or merely thought to be nice in theory . |
| 4 | The first document , Curriculum 11–16 , was generally thought to be useful . |
| 5 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 6 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 7 | Rational thought and behaviour are generally thought to be dependent in some ways upon an ability to reason logically . |
| 8 | Apparently , Halsbury then ‘ conceived the idea that the case should be re-argued before an enlarged body of Law Lords and that , in addition , the House should adopt once more the practice of summoning the High Court judges to advise ’ , a practice generally thought to be obsolete . |
| 9 | I certainly had a good time and judging by the sweat on everyone 's brow as they worked to perfect their routines I think it was generally thought to be enjoyable and worthwhile . |
| 10 | We build our description on a survey of biographical and autobiographical publications of a number of well-known leaders generally thought to be visionary , including Lee Iacocca of Chrysler , Jan Carlzon of SAS , Edwin Land of Polaroid , René Lévesque of the Parti Quebécois , and Steven Jobs , formerly of Apple Computer . |
| 11 | The source of the mineralising fluids is generally thought to be Carboniferous shale basins adjacent to the carbonate plat-forms which host the mineralisation . |
| 12 | This is the name given to rapid loss of the TL signal from that part of the glow curve normally thought to be stable . |
| 13 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |
| 14 | Fish , too , often incorrectly thought to be incommunicative and largely undemonstrative creatures , even ‘ sing ’ , like birds , and communicate territorial , sexual and social signals in the realm of low-frequency sound . |
| 15 | After two days of almost non-stop rain , the first day was washed out completely , since the lakes dotted around the ground were not thought to be conducive to good cricket . |
| 16 | The Hawiye clan , which dominates the rebel group currently threatening Mr Barre , is not thought to be vengeful . |
| 17 | Radical change by Government edict was not thought to be appropriate in England , where teachers had for long seen themselves as equal partners in the process of educational development and change . |
| 18 | A 23-year-old man was taken to York District Hospital but his injuries are not thought to be serious . |
| 19 | Police said two adults and three children were taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital but their injuries were not thought to be serious . |
| 20 | In Newton-le-Willows , a 12-year-old schoolboy suffered burns , not thought to be serious , after falling onto a bonfire . |
| 21 | A man not thought to be easy to handle . |
| 22 | Most of the damage to trees was not thought to be permanent . |
| 23 | It is not thought to be suspicious . |
| 24 | The cause of the fire is not thought to be suspicious . |
| 25 | Police say the cause of the fire , which started in an empty top floor office suite , is not thought to be suspicious . |
| 26 | But if Jesus of Nazareth is not thought to be unique , and the Christian story is just a myth , why , one must ask , should one who is a feminist choose to take up this particular myth when it is so male , and has central to it a male person who is held to be unique ? |
| 27 | Air pollution was not thought to be responsible . |
| 28 | It is women who are not thought to be assertive . |
| 29 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 30 | Engineers and ceremonial officers are usually thought to be solemn people . |