Example sentences of "[adv] think to [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 | 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 . |
| 16 | Engineers and ceremonial officers are usually thought to be solemn people . |
| 17 | The traditional division , whereby the advice worker advises clients and the manager does everything else , was not always thought to be efficient or fair . |
| 18 | Household waste , once thought to be harmless debris , is now recognised as being polluting and hazardous . |
| 19 | Once thought to be rare , anorexia nervosa has become an important public health concern in western countries . |
| 20 | Perhaps most significant , microbiologists now realise that plasmids , once thought to be exceptional , are so common as to be almost the rule among bacteria . |
| 21 | Look here , the there 's a programme on about er , Rembrandt here and it said of the ni , nine hundred and eighty eight Rembrandts in nineteen thirteen , only around three hundred are still thought to be genuine to a display of art |
| 22 | Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan . |
| 23 | A general amnesty for the 4,000-5,000 Stasi spies still thought to be active in West Germany , originally approved by the West German Cabinet on Aug. 31 and then delayed , had not taken place as of late October 1990 . |
| 24 | Male dysfunction due to fear or anxiety about such a condition is much more likely to be responsible ; and female dysfunction or dissatisfaction is often mistakenly thought to be due to it when the true causes lie elsewhere . |
| 25 | Participating mortgages , formerly thought to be unenforceable , can now be used . |
| 26 | Cathodoluminescence shows that patchy carbonate cements in a North Sea reservoir sandstone , formerly thought to be secondary concretions , have a primary microbioclastic fabric . |
| 27 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |
| 28 | Over the past decade it has become accepted that some of the fossils formerly thought to be human ancestors are in fact on the line leading to the orang-utan . |
| 29 | The proximal colon and the small intestine are also thought to be dysfunctional in IBS . |
| 30 | While regarded as able and industrious , senior staff are also thought to be remote , invisible , and above personal contact . |