Example sentences of "[adv] thought [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provoked killings are generally thought to be less heinous than unprovoked killings , and provocation has long been accepted as a ground for reducing to manslaughter a killing which would otherwise fulfil the definition of murder . |
| 2 | Coffee decaffeinated by chemicals is generally thought to be as harmful as the beans containing caffeine , so always look for the water processed decaffeinated coffee . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for his thesis , women , who are normally thought to be more intuitive than men , have on average less spatial ability , while spatial ability is more important for scientific thinking than is verbal ability . |
| 4 | In the film version , Peter Sellers played the role of the simpleton gardner who repeats ( in a slow , almost meditative style ) what other people say to him , and is thereby thought to be highly perceptive . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 6 | Parents that lack such feelings , and there are many , even if they do their duty ‘ for duty 's sake ’ are nonetheless thought to be morally deficient . |
| 7 | They were once thought to be very dangerous indeed and believed to steal infants for the Devil to torment in Hell . |
| 8 | In general , Beccaria 's philosophy exhibits what could be regarded as a curious combination of concern with the rights of the individual under the social contract on the one hand , and utilitarian reductivism on the other — curious because rights theory and utilitarianism are often thought to be philosophically incompatible . |
| 9 | The employee 's estimate of £100,000 in savings was accordingly thought to be too conservative . |
| 10 | The death of the Eleventh Fürst , Johannes Thurn und Taxis , in 1990 , after a lavish life lived in anachronistic , princely , style , has revealed the financial disarray of a family previously thought to be enormously rich . |
| 11 | Many inscriptions on monuments that were previously thought to be purely calendrical are now known to commemorate specific events of historical significance , but the only three Maya books that have survived are all devoted to astronomy . |