Example sentences of "[noun sg] is think " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little religion is thought , furthermore , to be the way to reduce crime and promote a stable society . |
| 2 | The deal is thought to be worth £1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 3 | The deal is thought to be worth 1m over eighteen months to two years . |
| 4 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 5 | This episode is thought to have taken place around 448 . |
| 6 | The magnetotail is thought to extend downwind to beyond the orbit of Saturn , and it was detected by Voyager 2 en route to Saturn from Jupiter . |
| 7 | The result is thought provoking , . |
| 8 | The programme is thought to be less successful in Zimbabwe , since the denser vegetation means that poachers may not be able to see that the animal has no horn until they have already shot it . |
| 9 | Faulty circulation is thought to be the root cause of the disorder . |
| 10 | And all the while my mind is thinking how beside the point all this talk of happiness is . |
| 11 | The point to notice in this mechanistic philosophy is that the mind is thought of as passive : |
| 12 | Persistent aggression is a deviation not only from social convention , but from the way people ‘ naturally ’ are , since the mind is thought to be properly in control of the soul ( cf. |
| 13 | When taken together with walking , cycling is thought to be between ten and forty times as energy efficient , as motorised transport ( Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 14 | An imperfect analogy is to think of D1 and D2 acting as one way water valves , with C5 as a piston . |
| 15 | The Roslavl' party cell is thinking of recruiting up to seventy-five soldiers from the town garrison in order to collect potatoes from the area as a tax in kind . |
| 16 | The chapter is thought to be the first on this subject in a text of this type . |
| 17 | The conversion of the UK vote is thought to offer the best chance of reaching the required total of 54 votes . |
| 18 | Bal is thinking of using the money for a holiday and is looking forward to submitting more ideas in the future . |
| 19 | Blues and greens , for example , are considered to be cool and restful ; yellow is thought of as sunny and gay ; while red , orange and tans are associated with warmth , as are peach and apricot . |
| 20 | The complex is thought to have similarities with some Canadian porphyry copper deposits ( MRP 55 ) . |
| 21 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries . |
| 22 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 23 | The primacy effect is thought to reflect the operation of secondary memory , i.e. recall from a long-term memory store while the recency effect is believed to reflect the operation of primary memory , i.e recall from a short-term memory store ( Bernstein et al , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 25 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
| 26 | A duplicate key is thought to have been used to enter a bungalow in Daytona Drive , Northop Hall , where property worth almost £4,000 was stolen . |
| 27 | The font is thought to be medieval . |
| 28 | The latter figure is thought to be between 63,000 and 65,000 . |
| 29 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 30 | Its mode of action is thought to be its ability to potentiate the defensive barriers of gastrointestinal mucosa . |