Example sentences of "[noun pl] thought [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cerebral areas thought to be devoted to motor aspects of speech planning and execution ( for example supplementary motor area ( SMA ) , cerebellum and possibly primary sensorimotor areas of mouth and larynx ( BA 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 ) and BA 6 ) were activated by our experimental tasks even though there was no overt speech . |
| 2 | At this stage the selector should note down as much information as possible against each title , including the reason it was marked as a possible purchase — because recommended in a select bibliography , for instance , or as a replacement for a much-used copy on the shelves — and perhaps some form of starring system to identify titles thought to be outstanding of their kind . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | He shows us the modifications which objects thought to be inanimate impose on each other … |
| 5 | Although much of the racism that black job-seekers experience is of a direct and overt kind , it is important to recognize that a variety of indirect forms of discrimination also operates against black people in the search for employment , ranging from common employers ' practices like recruiting relatives and children of existing workers to the operation of particular conceptions of the ‘ good ’ worker which militate against the employment of workers thought to be different in manner or appearance ( Lee and Wrench , 1983 ; Blackburn and Mann , 1979 ; Jenkins , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 7 | In the second phase Western practitioners try out their ideas in other cultures and many new insights emerge by comparisons and contrasts , in particular it becomes clear that some of the principles thought to be valid for ‘ man ’ turn out to be valid only for man in Western cultures . |
| 8 | The penultimate chapter examines selected features of crime in general , especially the social characteristics of persons thought to be responsible for various offences . |
| 9 | AMONG the genes thought to be involved in patterning the nervous system are a family of developmentally regulated paired box-containing ( Pax ) genes . |
| 10 | The test is based upon an explicit model of the processes thought to be involved in verbal communication ( See Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If a firm made an issue thinking that Japanese assets were overpriced , it would be more sensible to invest the proceeds in assets thought to be underpriced , such as American buildings or companies . |
| 13 | The troubled relations between the Serbian and the majority ethnic Albanian populations in the autonomous province of Kosovo suffered a further setback in late March , after an incident on March 22 in which some 400 students and schoolchildren were rushed to hospital with symptoms thought to be consistent with poisoning . |
| 14 | 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 . |