Example sentences of "think to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another . |
| 2 | Securing a job in Digital , opened in the recession-free days of the early 70s , was thought to be akin to getting a position in the civil service : once in , there forever . |
| 3 | This was thought to be due to the fact that the smaller wheels were leading , but the Metropolitan Electric tramways which had some similar cars on almost identical bogies , turned the bogies round on one of their cars ( No. 25 ) and it made no appreciable difference . |
| 4 | The reason for this is not known but is thought to be due to infection by the virus itself . |
| 5 | At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 8 | All the food available to animals and man was thought to be due to the rain which fell from the heavens , the arrival of which was dependent on the will of the god Ba'al . |
| 9 | The anomalous heat is thought to be due to solar energy , which penetrates the surface ice in spring and warms the depths . |
| 10 | The evident SOC retreat from the more moderate stance of December was thought to be due to the influence of a hardline faction which feared that the peace plan would open the way to systematic Khmer Rouge infiltration under unwitting UN protection . |
| 11 | This was thought to be due to the lack of the acid neutralising effect of the saliva . |
| 12 | The patients were referred to the gastroenterology unit of the Adelaide Children 's Hospital for evaluation of symptoms thought to be due to gastro-oesophageal reflux or a feeding disorder . |
| 13 | The etiology is unknown , but is thought to be due to the dissolution and aspiration of dead or dying worm material into the alveoli . |
| 14 | This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ . |
| 15 | This separating layer is undoubtedly mainly a protein and was originally thought to be similar to keratin which is the protein in hair . |
| 16 | The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week . |
| 17 | Little information is available on the developmental cycle of this genus , but it is thought to be similar to that of the genus Trichonema . |
| 18 | Wimpey refused to quantify the additional charge it has taken for its involvement in the Channel Tunnel project , but it is thought to be similar to the £8 million announced by its fellow Chunnel contractor , Balfour Beatty , recently . |
| 19 | Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers . |
| 20 | This was an attempt to retain some of the advantages of the gold standard , since stable rates of exchange were thought to be beneficial to the conduct of trade and other international transactions , and yet adjustments in the exchange rate were deemed desirable for a country facing a permanent payments imbalance . |
| 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 | The Butler Committee argued that relatively minor mental disorders may be regarded as falling within section 2 simply because this outcome is thought to be preferable to mandatory life imprisonment . |
| 23 | On the other hand , its penalty structure might be thought to be preferable to that of New South Wales , for the maximum penalty for each category of offence is higher than in New South Wales and the ten-year maximum for simple sexual assault enables a heavier penalty to be imposed in serious cases which do not come within the higher categories . |
| 24 | The TUC was not prepared to abandon its sectional interest if measures to secure full employment were thought to be contrary to the interests of the unions . |
| 25 | Ps. livingstonii and Ps. elegans are both members of the Maylandia subgenus which also includes the rock dwelling Ps. zebra and its close relatives , and Ps. elegans is thought to be close to the ancestor of the ‘ Ps. zebra complex ’ ( Konings 1989 ) . |
| 26 | Less than three months after his appointment Chaovalit resigned after a Cabinet colleague , Chalerm Yubamrung ( who was thought to be close to Chatichai ) , accused him of corruption . |
| 27 | Although the Cabinet was composed of members of the ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea ( PDGE ) , some members were thought to be close to the opposition . |
| 28 | After two days of almost non-stop rain , the first day was washed out completely , since the lakes dotted around the ground were not thought to be conducive to good cricket . |
| 29 | Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease . |
| 30 | For the purposes of the present work , there will be an emphasis on structural differentiation and the availability of industrial products to the mass population , providing a material rather than an evolutionary legitimation for the exclusion , with respect to issues thought to be specific to modernity , of countries without monetary wealth or the necessary degree of equitable distribution . |