Example sentences of "thought [prep] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as many as two dozen countries are still thought to be developing chemical weapons , and the treaty will not come into force until 1995 at the earliest . |
| 2 | The tensions of wartime could easily turn anger against refugees who were thought to be getting privileged treatment . |
| 3 | In that it joins other states like Iran , Israel , Pakistan and India who are all thought to be pursuing military nuclear programmes . |
| 4 | MORE than 80 banks are thought to be studying final proposals for the £1.4 billion debt refinancing plan to rescue the property and trading group , Heron . |
| 5 | The marketability of Freud is also thought to be suffering due to the artist 's recent penchant for painting the backside of performance artist Leigh Bowery , a subject of seemingly little appeal to traditional Freud collectors . |
| 6 | About 200-300 Awa Guajá are thought to be left alive , of whom about 150 have had no contact with outside society . |
| 7 | Not only were the garotters thought to be visiting hot-blooded Neapolitan outrage upon English soil , but on other occasions they were said to be ‘ like the sanguinary fanatics of the French Revolution ’ as well as resembling the ‘ Indian ‘ thuggee' ’ ’ . |