Example sentences of "[be] think [to-vb] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 2 | Most of these are thought to have been Slavs , whom the retreating Austrians had stationed in the rear to sustain the impact of Russian cavalry attacks . |
| 3 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |
| 4 | At first they were thought to have been victims of a crossbow bolt . |
| 5 | The charcoal sketch , measuring 25.7×19.3 cm , is thought to have been part of a Leonardo sketchbook owned by George IV . |
| 6 | ( William 's mother was thought to have been Herleva , daughter of Fulbert , a tanner of Falaise ) . |