Example sentences of "thought [prep] [be] extinct " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 2 | In 1951 a well-documented eruption of this kind took place on Mt Lamington in Papua , another of those volcanoes which was thought to be extinct until something nasty happened . |
| 3 | Elsewhere in the world , other species thought to be extinct have been rediscovered in the wild . |
| 4 | Several species of Australian amphibian , amongst them some of the most beautiful and interesting in the world , have died out and are now thought to be extinct . |
| 5 | The opal allotoca , a two-inch fish species thought to be extinct , has been found alive and well in a large Mexican cattle pond . |
| 6 | , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia . |