Example sentences of "was think to [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader of the coup attempt , Kukoi Samba Sanyang , was thought to be living in Burkina . |
| 2 | Two years ago , when he was in London , Ontario , he was thought to be spreading the disease through promiscuous sex . |
| 3 | Just where he was now and where he was heading was uncertain , this possibly having much to do with the non-arrival of Murray and the Steward , since both would be coming from the West Country and Balliol was thought to be marching southwards down the middle of the land . |
| 4 | Last year Caradon bought the Everest double-glazing business from RTZ for £32m and was thought to be stalking further acquisitions . |
| 5 | The appellant was however described as flat and detached , with no signs of remorse for his offences : he was thought to be developing a personality disorder . |
| 6 | He had difficulty ‘ sounding ’ because of this , and it was thought to be affecting his progress in learning to read . |
| 7 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 8 | SHV , which has 43 per cent of Calor Group , was thought to be buying Burmah . |
| 9 | I was thought to be getting above myself because I refused to sight read a scene . |
| 10 | James Butterworth followed the hooligan careers of similar boys — ‘ Sam Smiler ’ and ‘ Thomas Tiddler ’ — along with the apprenticeship of ‘ Tiddler Junior ’ , because the British hooligan was thought to be getting younger in his time , as in ours : |
| 11 | He was thought to be reacting to a resolution passed by the European Parliament on March 12 which deplored the " unacceptable repression " of opposition in the country . |
| 12 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 13 | Because ‘ this vast and terrifying disintegration ’ , as described by Leavis and Thompson in 1933 , was thought to be showing itself not only in the alleged decline of literary and artistic values , but also in its effects upon personal identity , family life and the destruction of community . |
| 14 | But one criticism made later in the same commentary drew attention to what was thought to be missing " above all , two things : one of them a sense of history , both a broad and more local framework within which the achievement of these schools can be placed and evaluated ; the other a sense of the actual texture of the schools themselves " ( Tizard et al. |
| 15 | Sir Geraint was thought to be making a good recovery in hospital after suffering a minor heart attack at his home near Aberystwyth . |