Example sentences of "[be] think [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Virgin and Thorn EMI are thought to be vying for the lucrative Jobete in Detroit , which controls the publishing rights to a catalogue of 15,000 Motown titles . |
| 2 | Agility , speed , muscular power , sharpness of reflex , accuracy of judgment , these I presume to be some of the attributes with which blacks are thought to be born . |
| 3 | The greatest effect is in Indomalesia , where some 85 000 km 2 are thought to be lost each year . |
| 4 | About 16 billion tonnes are thought to be lost every year . |
| 5 | Crystal Palace have offered £1 million for Martyn , named in England 's B squad on Monday , while Watford have had a £500,000 offer for Penrice rejected but are thought to be considering a higher bid . |
| 6 | Higher level reservoirs are thought to be charged from the same source by migration through faults or fault contacts . |
| 7 | Action , power , are thought to be contrasted , in Babel 's stories , with learning , devotion , resignation , suffering — those Jewish things . |
| 8 | However , less than 3% of all deaths from lung cancer are thought to be caused by these substances [ 3 ] . |
| 9 | The tears are thought to be caused by her pain as she looks at the sins of the world , and are meant to inspire the watchers to repent and to set an example to others . |
| 10 | In September , one MP investigating Maxwell 's pillaging of his employees ' pension funds claimed that Mrs Maxwell controlled trusts in the tax haven of Liechtenstein , where some of the missing millions are thought to be hidden . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These are thought to be related to the underlying granite batholith . |
| 13 | Around 800,000 children are thought to be affected , and even those living 200 miles north of the reactor still receive constant , dangerous doses . |
| 14 | 20,000 pensioners , all of whom were obliged by law to pay into a pension fund are thought to be affected . |
| 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 | But its members are thought to be waiting to see what its British equivalent comes up with . |
| 17 | Palms , which may vary in size from emergents in the montane forest of the Andes to treelets 30cm tall in the Madagascan rain forest , are thought to be pollinated largely by beetles and sometimes bees , and not , as was formerly believed , entirely by wind . |
| 18 | The Queen Mother 's strong beliefs are thought to be rooted in her intense disapproval of her brother-in-law Edward VIII 's decision in 1936 to abdicate for the love of American divorcee Mrs Wallis Simpson . |
| 19 | Another six families are thought to be suing the baby drinks firm this year because of its effect on their children 's teeth . |
| 20 | MORE than 80 banks are thought to be studying final proposals for the £1.4 billion debt refinancing plan to rescue the property and trading group , Heron . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | About 200-300 Awa Guajá are thought to be left alive , of whom about 150 have had no contact with outside society . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 25 | Because of the timescale the estate agents being paid up to £10.95 for each house valued are thought to be rushing the work . |
| 26 | Many of Japan 's largest and most famous corporations , including Matsushita Electric , Hitachi and Nippon Steel , have reported major drops in profits while nearly a third of the country 's medium-sized companies are thought to be losing money . |
| 27 | The thrushes are thought to be harmed by consuming slugs and snails which have been treated with molluscicides , whose use has grown by 900 per cent in recent years . |
| 28 | The aim : to persuade countries to reduce their output of greenhouse gases , which are thought to be warming the world faster than ever before . |
| 29 | Enhanced inputs of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides due to this process are thought to be contributing to acidification ( Blackie and Newson 1986 ) . |
| 30 | The men are thought to be aged about 25 , 6ft tall with short fair hair . |