Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be thought that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now it has been thought that interferon can do little to prevent the initial entry of viruses into a cell . |
| 2 | It has been thought that aircraft maintenance problems i.e. planning/scheduling activities , aircraft system/equipment failure diagnosis , etc. , are too large and complex to be tackled successfully with computers . |
| 3 | Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets . |
| 4 | It has been thought that Freud was assuming that there can be inheritance of acquired characteristics , an idea shown to be fallacious in modern biology . |
| 5 | In the past it has been thought that the fault was greed , but this is too simple a view . |
| 6 | It has been thought that damage of the tight junctions is morphologically represented by focal discontinuities and veriability in the numbers of tight junctional strands . |
| 7 | It has been thought that caeruloplasmin lacks para-phenylenediamine-oxidase activity because of loss of copper binding ability . |
| 8 | It had been thought that Mr Prescott would replace Bryan Gould , the trade and industry spokesman . |
| 9 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 10 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 11 | It had been thought that only the penalty was prescribed by statute , just as the penalty for murder is laid down by Parliament . |
| 12 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |
| 13 | Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall . |