Example sentences of "was think to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thought to be getting above myself because I refused to sight read a scene . |
| 2 | Despite his metrical conservatism ( his strenuous handling of the pentameter is surely surprising and admirable ) and his unfashionable addiction to the grand manner and the high style , Allen Tate was certainly a modernist ; that is what he was thought to be , and it is how he conceived of himself . |
| 3 | Last year Caradon bought the Everest double-glazing business from RTZ for £32m and was thought to be stalking further acquisitions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | SHV , which has 43 per cent of Calor Group , was thought to be buying Burmah . |
| 6 | Subterfuge was thought to be better than violence . ’ |
| 7 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 8 | Government ministers tried to stem the tide of mounting public expenditure : John Nott 's replacing Francis Pym at the Ministry of Defence in January 1981 was thought to be a pointer in this direction . |
| 9 | It is not clear which , the anger or the boredom , was thought to be the more insulting , but both were expressed as that arrogance for which he was often hated . |
| 10 | partly this was because the current account deficit appears much smaller in current ( 1980s ) data than it was thought to be by contemporaries ; mainly , it would seem , because the invisible position was actually much better than was then realized . |
| 11 | Such provision was thought to be important in a borough where the majority of housing is in local authority estates with little provision for single people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Her successor , John Major , was thought to be a pragmatist who would heal the split on Europe . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | More specifically , the scholastic conception of scientia , or scientific knowledge , was thought to be an inappropriate model for empirical knowledge of nature . |
| 17 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 18 | It was also a triumph over the devil , who was thought to be particularly active at death-beds , either gloating over the sinner who was about to fall into his clutches , or trying at the last moment to snatch a soul in the throes of fear or doubt . |
| 19 | He went to see a young clergyman , seized by what was thought to be a dangerous illness : |
| 20 | In cases where life imprisonment was thought to be the appropriate sentence , the trial judge would still specify — in open court — the number of years to be spent in prison , taking the gravity of the offence into account , and release would be determined by a judicial tribunal . |
| 21 | Over 17 hands high , he had a girth which measured seventy-nine inches ( Secretariat 's girth was thought to be remarkably large at seventy-six inches ) and housed a heart which after his death tipped the scales at fourteen and a half pounds : the average for a Thoroughbred is around ten pounds . |
| 22 | One of the brown immigrants deliberately poured some of his coffee over the pale slab of sugar crusted fruit pie he was eating , and this was thought to be a brilliant piece of improvised humour . |
| 23 | The operation by fund managers was thought to be purely tactical , to avoid the risk of a sharp fall in the currency followed by an equally sharp rise should the next government decide to apply the remedy of higher interest rates . |
| 24 | The painting , with the two fat cats at the base of the steps , was thought to be by her . |
| 25 | It was however in the late 1950s that a dog arrived who embodied everything that was thought to be correct , a living blueprint for further development . |
| 26 | In the early post-war period , the British welfare state was thought to be the envy of much of the industrialized world . |
| 27 | The Lords of the West Marches and their Commissioners from both sides of the border , wherever that was thought to be at the time , met there to resolve complaints and grievances . |
| 28 | Their name signified ‘ sons of Zadok ’ , the high priest at the time of David who was thought to be a descendant of the younger son of Aaron . |
| 29 | As Sir Ronald Syme has pointed out , the Romans had a special veneration for authority , precedent , and tradition , and they greatly objected to change unless it was thought to be in accord with ancestral custom , which meant in practice the sentiments of the oldest living senators . |
| 30 | Until recently the Antikythera mechanism was thought to be the sole surviving example of mathematical gearing in the Hellenistic tradition . |