Example sentences of "thought to have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 2 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 3 | Any estate owner who achieved this might be thought to have made a notable bargain . |
| 4 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 5 | It is thought to have seen no operational service during World War Two , but was used for spinning trials at Farnborough . |
| 6 | Staff made frantic attempts to revive him but he is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the fact that he sought re-election to the legislature was widely interpreted as indicative of a desire to use his influence — he was thought to have maintained an overall majority in the new House — to secure the presidency for his friend and colleague , Vice-President Teatao Teannaki , the elected member for Abiang . |
| 8 | Whereas Marx is usually thought to have envisaged a classless society in which people will no longer be deluded by false consciousness , Althusser has posited a determinism so strong as to be inescapable . |
| 9 | He is now thought to have rejoined the Labour Party , and to have composed an ‘ open letter ’ to Neil Kinnock hinting that he should be helped to find a suitable constituency . |
| 10 | Before the passing of the 1980 Act certain decisions of this court , in particular Wallis ' Cayton Bay Holiday Camp Ltd v Shellmex and BP Ltd [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 575 and Gray v Wykeham-Martin [ 1977 ] CA Transcript 10A were thought to have established a general doctrine that in one special type of case there would be implied in favour of the would-be adverse possessor , without any specific factual basis for such implication , a licence permitting him to commit the acts of possession on which he sought to rely ; the effect of implying such a licence would , of course , be to prevent the squatter 's possession from being " adverse " . |
| 11 | However , publication of a poll of Rabin 's fellow retired generals and of senior officials of Mossad , the intelligence service , the same day , was thought to have had a decisive effect in allaying public fears over the security aspects of Labour 's policies . |
| 12 | Recent warnings by prominent Quebec business leaders concerning the negative economic consequences of independence , coupled with the current economic recession , were thought to have had a sobering effect upon public opinion . |
| 13 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 14 | The royal dynasty , thus , was thought to have had a supernatural origin . |
| 15 | Brooke-Rose was generally thought to have overdone the serious aspect of her tale to the detriment of its comic potential . |
| 16 | And Stewart is thought to have put a reserve price of something over £50,000 . |