Example sentences of "thought [prep] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sixteen children thought to be at high risk had a further individual assessment .
2 The provision restricting investment income was also thought to be of dubious constitutionality .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The Dark Ages , once thought to be of extensive duration lasting until Norman influence established itself or even beyond , are now becoming less ‘ dark ’ .
6 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 .
7 Nationally , what both education and business produce is valued and thought to be of vital importance .
8 Firstly , there were discussions of issues thought to be of particular interest or relevance to women , such as abortion or equality .
9 The remaining two pups were not registered with the AKC , as they were not thought to be of high enough merit .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Both men are thought to be about 19-years-old .
14 The activity posited by Brentano , secondly , is common not only to seeing and other perception , thinking in the sense of deliberating or judging , and also remembering , intending , and deciding , all of which are ordinarily thought to be in different ways active , but also pain and other sensations , dreaming , experiencing an emotion , and being subject to a mood , all of which are thought to be in different ways passive .
15 The activity posited by Brentano , secondly , is common not only to seeing and other perception , thinking in the sense of deliberating or judging , and also remembering , intending , and deciding , all of which are ordinarily thought to be in different ways active , but also pain and other sensations , dreaming , experiencing an emotion , and being subject to a mood , all of which are thought to be in different ways passive .
16 A rather unspectacular brown Acrocephalus warbler , it was thought to be in imminent danger of following the dodo into extinction until the ICBP bought the island and instituted a programme of saving and increasing its mangrove breeding habitat .
17 Five paintings by a mass murderer , once withdrawn from auction because they were thought to be in bad taste , have been bought by a collector .
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