Example sentences of "[conj] be thought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 2 | In talking about what is good in the Protestant way of life , even evangelical Protestants go beyond theology and begin to list things that are thought to be the results of the right religion . |
| 3 | TWO COMPLETELY new organisms have been discovered that are thought to be important contributors to the ever-increasing problem of sexually-transmitted disease — in particular so-called ‘ non-specific genital infections ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And so we know that particles that were thought to be " elementary " twenty years ago are , in fact , made up of smaller particles . |
| 6 | This sense of the maverick is coupled with a talent for making complex , lyrical films which possess the depth and artistry that is thought to be the sole province of European and art house directors . |
| 7 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |
| 8 | It was however in the late 1950s that a dog arrived who embodied everything that was thought to be correct , a living blueprint for further development . |
| 9 | A FIVE million year-old piece of bone that was thought to be the collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib , according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley . |
| 10 | The rational expectations hypothesis does not pose a threat to Keynesian theory in the way that was thought to be the case when it first entered into macroeconomics . |
| 11 | IN the midst of a defeat from the world champions , Andy Roxburgh may have found the vindication he was looking for in an exercise that was thought to be without relevance for Scotland . |
| 12 | The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time . |
| 13 | The Cameroon line basaltic magmas have OIB-like isotopic compositions and are thought to be derived by melting of a fossil plume , the head of which became fractionated in U/Pb about 125Myr ago . |
| 14 | In the modelled docked structure , residues 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 of CsA protrude out into the solvent , and are thought to be involved in binding the effector protein , calcineurin . |
| 15 | But now their contacts at her refugee camp say Azra and her mother have disappeared and are thought to be heading for Germany . |
| 16 | Furthermore , when horses , mules and donkeys are pastured together a horse foal may accidentally bond to a female mule and be thought to be her offspring . |
| 17 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock . |
| 18 | The killing of the bird caused dismay to the RSPB because it was released in Scotland and is thought to be the first to have made its way to southern England from a release programme . |
| 19 | It is one of many forms of rheumatism and is thought to be the result of wear and tear on joint surfaces , particularly hips , knees and spine . |
| 20 | Ana 's Cross is visible for miles , and is thought to be on a ley line with Young Ralph 's Cross at Blakey . |
| 21 | Dentine is universal in vertebrates and is thought to be the most primitive of vertebrate hard tissues . |
| 22 | It is , however , now committed to find its own end-user business , and is thought to be talking to Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 23 | The enzyme progastricsin , is present in 30–40% of gastric adenocarcinomas and is thought to be useful in differentiating between colonic and gastric adenocarcinomas . |
| 24 | Fear is the commonest change in mood associated with complex partial seizures and is thought to be exclusively related to the right temporal lobe . |
| 25 | This has been generally well received and is thought to be helpful and informative on matters of chambers administration . |
| 26 | During inhalation , the NO is absorbed by erythrocytes as they pass through the lungs and is thought to be inactivated by tight bonding to the haem , which is subsequently metabolised to methaemoglobin . |
| 27 | It 's been funded by people from the town and is thought to be the first project of its kind . |
| 28 | Last year Caradon bought the Everest double-glazing business from RTZ for £32m and was thought to be stalking further acquisitions . |
| 29 | As distinct from a personal tutelary spirit , who watched over an individual brave , the manitou patronised the entire tribe and was thought to be the long-ago founder of that tribe . |
| 30 | By the time of Ramesses IV in the Twentieth Dynasty , Amenhotep was worshipped as a dead king and was thought to be an intermediary between men and gods , particularly in relation to Amun , god of Thebes . |