Example sentences of "[noun sg] be thought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly these regions of the mouse genome are thought to be paralogous or ancestrally related ( 71 ) . |
| 2 | Had the Home Office research shown that the majority of offences within reported crime were thought to be committed by people on probation , under SSD supervision , or on community programmes , one could have understood a post-trial response . |
| 3 | The deal is thought to be worth £1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 4 | The deal is thought to be worth 1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 5 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 6 | The programme is thought to be less successful in Zimbabwe , since the denser vegetation means that poachers may not be able to see that the animal has no horn until they have already shot it . |
| 7 | Faulty circulation is thought to be the root cause of the disorder . |
| 8 | Persistent aggression is a deviation not only from social convention , but from the way people ‘ naturally ’ are , since the mind is thought to be properly in control of the soul ( cf. |
| 9 | When taken together with walking , cycling is thought to be between ten and forty times as energy efficient , as motorised transport ( Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 10 | The chapter is thought to be the first on this subject in a text of this type . |
| 11 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries . |
| 12 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 13 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 14 | The font is thought to be medieval . |
| 15 | The latter figure is thought to be between 63,000 and 65,000 . |
| 16 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 17 | Its mode of action is thought to be its ability to potentiate the defensive barriers of gastrointestinal mucosa . |
| 18 | This enhancement is thought to be associated with the extraction of additional information about the stimuli in the attended ear . |
| 19 | And fashion store Etam is thought to be on the brink of signing a letting agreement involving its switch from its Northgate store into the Cornmill . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | For all these reasons the future was thought to be uncertain . |
| 22 | The mathematical probability of any family producing a chess Grandmaster was thought to be relatively low ; the mathematical probability of producing three in a row goes off the chart . |
| 23 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 24 | The conditions of mass unemployment certainly helped to support the feeling of leniency , in that crime was thought to be an inevitable consequence of poverty , so that there was an active sympathy for the young unemployed whose miserable condition was further highlighted in a perceived increase of suicides among the young . |
| 25 | For a start , the figures exclude transactions that occurred on the last two business days of the month — the very time when pressure on the pound was thought to be most intense . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Until lately , Turkey 's worst fear was thought to be a vacuum in northern Iraq , leaving room for an autonomous Kurdish entity — which , in its turn , would be a beacon for the separatist movement on Turkish soil . |
| 28 | In the end Seth killed Apophis , whose blood was thought to be seen in the red or pink tint of the morning and evening sky . |
| 29 | Prospects for new work are thought to be good . |
| 30 | In addition to Praxis ' RS/6000 installer , versions for DEC 's Alpha AXP chip and Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA-RISC architecture are thought to be underway . |