Example sentences of "think to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the technique was first practised is unknown , although it is traditionally thought to be of Chinese origin , although there are accounts of it being used in India around 550 BC . |
| 2 | Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints . |
| 3 | This has an unusual external iron undershot wheel , thought to be of the Poncelot type , complete with iron buckets . |
| 4 | The remaining two pups were not registered with the AKC , as they were not thought to be of high enough merit . |
| 5 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 6 | The Barren ‘ Red ’ Measures of the Upper Coal Measures contain thick sandstone units in a ‘ red-bed ’ sequence thought to be of fluviatile and flood plain origin . |
| 7 | Nationally , what both education and business produce is valued and thought to be of vital importance . |
| 8 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 9 | Since Croydon Corporation 's tramway system was leased to the B.E.T. , the fact that the Penge services and the Mitcham/Sutton services would be separated by about two miles of Corporation owned track was thought to be of little consequence and it was intended to work the whole system as one with lengthy through services , under the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ fleet name . |
| 10 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 11 | 102 , here attributed to Willem Drost ) , the first depicting the artist 's sick wife Saskia , the second previously thought to be of his son Titus , Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that emotional attachment to the supposed subject matter had clouded judgement over attribution of drawings such as these . |
| 12 | Firstly , there were discussions of issues thought to be of particular interest or relevance to women , such as abortion or equality . |
| 13 | Moreover , except in the context of a common market they are not thought to be of interest to outsiders . |
| 14 | That the classical doctrine of the trinity has in this manner been departed from may be thought to be of no small consequence . |
| 15 | All too often , academic freedom is thought to be of such a form that its possession by one group implies its denial to another group . |
| 16 | The provision restricting investment income was also thought to be of dubious constitutionality . |
| 17 | The Dark Ages , once thought to be of extensive duration lasting until Norman influence established itself or even beyond , are now becoming less ‘ dark ’ . |
| 18 | The interplay of these enzymes and their activators and inhibitors and the disruption of normal hepatocyte-matrix interactions is currently thought to be of major importance in the pathogenesis of liver injury . |
| 19 | There is a further indication that this is the right solution ; one of the few archaeological finds to have come from the battlefield at Vézeronce is a fine helmet , which has been thought to be of Ostrogothic workmanship . |