Example sentences of "[conj] is thought " in BNC.

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1 The variable that is thought of as a cause ( the explanatory variable ) is placed on the X -axis and the variable that is thought of as an effect ( the response variable ) is placed on the Y -axis .
2 The variable that is thought of as a cause ( the explanatory variable ) is placed on the X -axis and the variable that is thought of as an effect ( the response variable ) is placed on the Y -axis .
3 Mr Li quickly adopted a more reformist tone — a change that is thought at least temporarily to have saved his career .
4 The incompatible element ratio K/U is considered uniform in MORB , a feature that is thought to reflect similar bulk partition coefficients for K and U such that there is negligible fractionation during melting .
5 This sense of the maverick is coupled with a talent for making complex , lyrical films which possess the depth and artistry that is thought to be the sole province of European and art house directors .
6 Nucleolin is a nucleolar specific protein that is thought to play a role in the processing of pre-ribosomal RNA as ribosomes are assembled ( 1 ) .
7 But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important .
8 Saturday 's attendance against Partick Thistle was 15,536 , or just over half the crowd that is thought necessary at each home game to meet the club 's weekly costs and overdraft repayments .
9 Young Germans may have less in common than is thought , writes Michael Simmons
10 It may , for example , be necessary to undertake more home visiting than is thought usual , at least until the time when the bereaved person feels more able to go out and face the world again .
11 As is evident from Table 1 and Fig. 1 , this is considerably more mass loss than is thought to occur for early K giants .
12 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock .
13 The killing of the bird caused dismay to the RSPB because it was released in Scotland and is thought to be the first to have made its way to southern England from a release programme .
14 It is common in later Palaeozoic rocks of South Africa , peninsular India , Australia and South America , and is thought to have lived almost exclusively in the cooler areas of the supercontinent Pangaea ( p. 32 ) .
15 The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date .
16 The present building was originally a corn mill , and is thought to have been built around the mid-18th century .
17 It is one of many forms of rheumatism and is thought to be the result of wear and tear on joint surfaces , particularly hips , knees and spine .
18 West believed that his mother had murdered his father ; the idea preyed upon him and is thought to have been contributory to his early death .
19 The viola is 87cm long and is thought originally to have had twelve strings , but now only has nine wire strings .
20 He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off .
21 Ana 's Cross is visible for miles , and is thought to be on a ley line with Young Ralph 's Cross at Blakey .
22 Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a COSE desktop toolkit .
23 Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it considered for NT , and is thought unlikely to go with a $100 price .
24 Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a Common Open Software Environment desktop toolkit .
25 Alkali promotion of carbon monoxide reactivity , for example , forms part of the industrially important synthesis of hydrocarbons , and is thought to follow from a weakening of the internal C-O bond resulting from an enhanced binding interaction between the CO molecule and the catalyst .
26 Dentine is universal in vertebrates and is thought to be the most primitive of vertebrate hard tissues .
27 The ignimbrites were collected in a strike-slip rift valley ( 100x15km ) related to the Cordillera Blanca fault system , an important crustal structure which marks the western boundary of the batholith ( Fig. 1 ) and is thought to extend at depth to the source region of the complex .
28 It is , however , now committed to find its own end-user business , and is thought to be talking to Olivetti & Co SpA .
29 It is now down to 126,000 employees and is thought to want to get that down to 100,000 by December .
30 The enzyme progastricsin , is present in 30–40% of gastric adenocarcinomas and is thought to be useful in differentiating between colonic and gastric adenocarcinomas .
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