Example sentences of "they [be] think to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are thought to be from south China . |
| 2 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 3 | The C2s ( skilled workers to lower management , broadly ) are courted , flattered and endlessly solicited for their opinions , since they are thought to be the deciding factor in the election . |
| 4 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 5 | Although no one is completely sure how , they are thought to be hereditary . |
| 6 | They are thought to be the Devil 's companions and to tempt men to death or illness by offering them bewitched foods . |
| 7 | They are thought to be under the aegis of the Soviet military . |
| 8 | Often the attraction of broader approaches like counselling is that they are thought to be able to tackle many massive problems at the same time . |
| 9 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 10 | Therefore , they are thought to be important regulators of brain development ( reviewed in [ 12 ] ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are thought to be the victims of fishermen , who blame them for meagre fish stocks . |
| 13 | They are thought to be the youngest children in modern times to face charges of murder . |
| 14 | They 're thought to be from an old church , and are helping archeologists to piece together a picture of life in medieval times . |
| 15 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 16 | Because the cats wandered about , often at night , they were thought to be either the supernatural servants of the witches , or else the witches themselves , transformed into cat-shape to aid their nocturnal travels when seeking revenge . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were thought to be suitable for working on any part of the system . |
| 19 | Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores . |
| 20 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 21 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( Because they were thought to be able to change their form at will , the accused were branded ‘ shape shifters ’ ) . |
| 24 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 25 | Five paintings by a mass murderer , once withdrawn from auction because they were thought to be in bad taste , have been bought by a collector . |
| 26 | But the features that make Mr President sexy do n't work the same trick when the man behind them is thought to be a vacuum cleaner salesman from Bolton . |