Example sentences of "[be] thought [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethnic-minority children who are thought by their teachers to be having difficulties at school are being assessed with tests which are thought to be fundamentally flawed . |
| 2 | Humpbacks are thought to be mostly solitary creatures , though such songs indicate that close physical proximity is by no means necessary for social contact of a vocal nature . |
| 3 | The matter is further complicated by the fact that the disclosure letter will almost always say the disclosures are made by reference to the warranty to which they are thought to be most applicable , but they also apply to all warranties . |
| 4 | Many Rottweilers are thought to be too soft when young and encouraged forward , forward , forward , in their defensive instinct . |
| 5 | This Astra was stolen by 5 teenagers , some of whom are thought to be as young as 13 . |
| 6 | A development which starts from the humane desire to prevent severe handicap could lead to demands by parents for genetic interventions to produce traits which are thought to be culturally desirable , such as maleness and fair skin . |
| 7 | Some dogs are thought to be genetically susceptible to it , but diet always seems to get the blame . |
| 8 | The problems posed by authors changing their names are thought to be very limited . |
| 9 | The problems posed by authors changing their names are thought to be very limited . |
| 10 | The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment . |
| 11 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 12 | Bank loans carrying fixed interest payments over specific periods , are thought to be more constraining in contrast to the flexibility gained by varying stockholders dividends in line with company performance . |
| 13 | It also helped in identifying important variables which had not previously been thought to be particularly interesting . |
| 14 | In order to change the understanding of women , or enlarge the conception as to what is to be considered authentically female , we should have to apply what have been thought to be characteristically male attributes to a female symbol . |
| 15 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |
| 16 | Again it may not be thought to be particularly helpful that God in God 's undifferentiated nature ( or indeed the Spirit in its rather vague nature ) are to be understood as ‘ female ’ , while ‘ divine energies ’ ( sic ) , that which is clearly differentiated and self-determining , is to be seen as ‘ male ’ . |
| 17 | Change to the concretion may be thought to be extraordinarily difficult , for the imagery is built into the literature and thought structure which form the basis of the religion . |
| 18 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 19 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 20 | It would seem unlikely before the Hadrianic period at the earliest , if comparison is made with some other northern sites such as Aldborough ; it might be thought to be more likely under Severus or Caracalla , when the whole northern frontier region was extensively reorganized . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Married women were thought to be particularly likely to abuse the system because of the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework . |
| 23 | This is reflected in the tendency to look back to a ‘ golden age ’ when these societies were thought to be more peaceful and law abiding . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Some of the girls pictured were thought to be as young as 6 . |
| 26 | Many problems which we are prepared to treat as bipolar have ramifications which could be taken into account if they were thought to be as important as the impact of the decision on the two contestants . |
| 27 | By the time that hostilities were suspended on Feb. 28 , the 43rd day of the war , only 30,000 Iraqi troops in the Kuwaiti theatre of operations — a roughly 250-km square of territory south of the Euphrates-Tigris rivers — were thought to be still combat-effective . |
| 28 | If this be thought to be disingenuously restrictive , an attempt to define away the opposition , then consider the alternative . |
| 29 | The matter has a long history and is illustrative of how law can lag behind what is thought to be economically desirable . |
| 30 | But even when the information is thought to be reasonably complete and reliable , there are a number of considerations which have to be taken into account in the interpretation of the coins from any site . |