Example sentences of "is think to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with so much theatre training available in the United States , New Zealand , Australia and Canada , it is interesting to ask why British theatre training is thought to be so beneficial . |
| 2 | This enhancement is thought to be associated with the extraction of additional information about the stimuli in the attended ear . |
| 3 | So the P300 is thought to be associated with the completion of stimulus identification and classification in preparation for a cognitive or motor response . |
| 4 | This is thought to be a mite higher than the brewery workers in Hartlepool will draw on the dole even if the management buyout of Cameron 's Brewery is successful . |
| 5 | It claims to eliminate toxins from the body , to restore a normal potassium and sodium balance in cells ( which is thought to be disturbed in cancer patients ) , to boost liver function ( also affected by the disease ) and to reactivate certain enzymes . |
| 6 | The active ingredient in garlic is thought to be the compound alliin . |
| 7 | The whole operation is thought to be loss-making , though the Leeds does not disclose its results . |
| 8 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 9 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock . |
| 10 | The company , which is one of the leading manufacturers of timber pallets in the UK , is thought to be planning the acquisition of a components manufacturer for about £700,000 . |
| 11 | He is thought to be Pol Pot 's effective deputy . |
| 12 | It is thought to be the largest British dairy farm to go green , and the conversion — for deeply held environmental reasons — is backed by sound economic logic . |
| 13 | In my trade this is thought to be par for the course . |
| 14 | It also suggests , paradoxically , that the less autonomous individuality is thought to be , the more it might be marked by a potentially subversive agency . |
| 15 | Bar work is thought to be transitory , undemanding and unskilled . |
| 16 | The EFA radar contract is thought to be worth around £1.5billion to the consortium which wins the contract . |
| 17 | Depicting a muscular young man , naked and balancing on his left leg , it is thought to be more than 370 years old and the most significant example of Renaissance sculpture to come up for auction . |
| 18 | The EFA radar contract is thought to be worth around £1.5billion to the consortium which wins the contract . |
| 19 | ABOUT one in every four of Romania 's 23 million population is thought to be a member of the security service , the Securitate . |
| 20 | Although Mr Neubert would not say how much the three Swan Hunter Type 23s will cost , it is thought to be about three-quarters the price of recently built Type 22 frigates , which have a crew of 240 as against 170 for the Duke class . |
| 21 | A significant proportion of the dolphin 's brain is thought to be used in processing the information produced by the echolocation system . |
| 22 | This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding , and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn . |
| 23 | Its total population is thought to be no greater than 200–300 , scattered along about 1400 km ( 875 miles ) of the Yangtze 's lower and central sections . |
| 24 | The drift-net catch of juvenile in 1988–89 was estimated at between 29,000 and 49,000 tonnes , which is thought to be unsustainable . |
| 25 | The annual kill is thought to be far greater than could be replaced by the harbour porpoise 's slow rate of reproduction . |
| 26 | In America , where the capital shortage is thought to be worst , there is ample capital around to underpin the current demand for bank lending . |
| 27 | Peter Lilley , the trade secretary , is thought to be underperforming in the Commons . |
| 28 | Now the cost is thought to be in the range of $500m-1 billion a day . |
| 29 | Naming rape victims without their permission is thought to be a bad thing . |
| 30 | This is thought to be widespread , and is causing institutional investors , big holders of junk from the late 1980s , to complain that they are getting a raw deal . |