Example sentences of "[adv] be think to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edinburgh council alone is thought to be owed one hundred thousand pounds . |
| 2 | Mistaken biological beliefs , such that the male alone was thought to be a full human being , underlay western culture , making this seem the more plausible . |
| 3 | Although it is too early to assess the full effects , some of the rich shellfish and oyster beds offshore are thought to be in some danger . |
| 4 | LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another . |
| 5 | Those who do might also be thought to be insincere , but some policemen showed real regret and disappointment when they were unable to provide the service they felt they should , whether because of the nature of the call or because of unrealistic public expectations ( such as finding lost budgies , preventing sheep-worrying , or reconciling warring spouses and quarrelsome neighbours ) . |
| 6 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | Changes which are identified here are thought to be suggestive of changes which might take place in other areas of Shetland as the construction phase of the oil era winds down , and the oil production phase takes off in earnest . |
| 8 | In these circumstances , rape by a husband might very well be thought to be more disturbing in its effects than rape by that classic stranger leaping from the shadows . |
| 9 | The crypt that remains here is thought to be the best-preserved Romanesque crypt in Lombardy and contains remains from paleo-Christian times through to the Renaissance . |
| 10 | The treatment here is thought to be novel . |
| 11 | Article 86 , by contrast , has no section 3 to permit exemptions , which has sometimes been thought to be a weakness . |
| 12 | The structure of the Act of 1986 may initially be thought to be one in which the categories of authorised person and exempted person are mutually exclusive categories . |
| 13 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 14 | It also helped in identifying important variables which had not previously been thought to be particularly interesting . |
| 15 | He had been able to appear " normal " because he was abnormal , he was an outsider , he was mad , he saw and desired normality with a piercing vision of what it might ideally be thought to be . |
| 16 | In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic . |
| 17 | However , it too is thought to be moving to catch up with the market . |
| 18 | A second version of ‘ La Danse ’ painted in 1932 which until very recently was thought to be the first was donated by Matisse to the Petit Palais in Paris in 1936 . |