Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be thought [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later did Oliver Michaels come back with the sobering news that the hotel was strangely full of policemen , that there was no breakfast to be had save for coffee and muffins , without a trek to the Albion Hotel , and moreover there was thought to be something odd about Sir Thomas 's death which no one would specify . |
| 2 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 3 | Certainly one can consent to wounds in the course of surgery , at least it is thought to be so if there is a sound benefit , e.g. sex change . |
| 4 | While television coverage has not been monitored in the same way as the press in this study , there seems an increasing focus in television on sexual cases where there are thought to be many victims . |
| 5 | The explanation for adult personality , in other words , is to be found in the individual 's first encounters with the world , at a time when he is thought to be in a highly impressionable state . |
| 6 | There was excitement the night before the Sale opened , when what was thought to be Winston Churchill 's autograph was found on the flyleaf of an old maggot-eaten book , which had found its way to Edinburgh , from a North-West frontier War early this century . |
| 7 | Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores . |