Example sentences of "[be] think [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Dominique Collon , they are solar rays and are thought to represent the destructive aspect of the sun . |
| 2 | They are thought to represent the manometric equivalent of colonic mass movements that were first described by radiologists at the turn of the century . |
| 3 | Conventionalism 's negative claim might also be thought to serve the popular ideal in a different way , though this depends on adding a set of claims about how judges should decide hard cases when convention has run out . |
| 4 | At the same time , the article is tainted by what seems to be a desire to inflict damage on Levi 's reputation , of a kind which may be thought to serve the ideological tendency of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 5 | Any such artefact may seek either to proclaim or to hide the material used and the constraints the material has imposed upon the technological process : a mask may be thought to incorporate the spiritual properties of the wood from which it is taken ; a group of people may refuse to purchase an item known to be of seal skin ; a plastic may seek to copy a more traditional material ; the gold from which an object is made may have far greater significance than the actual form into which it has been hammered . |
| 6 | Later , under Roman occupation , they maintained with unbreakable courage their strict monotheism ; so much so that the Roman governor did not even dare to bring his standards into Jerusalem lest the medallions on them depicting the emperor should be thought to infringe the Second Commandment . |
| 7 | If each local community offered a different menu of public goods expenditures , then each individual could be thought to select the local community that provided a level of output corresponding to his or her preferences . |
| 8 | Insofar as the section enables instructions to be given well in advance of the public assembly , it might be thought to augment the existing powers , since the breach of the peace ( or other disorder ) may be some days distant when the conditions ( which must be in writing when they are given in advance ) are issued . |
| 9 | In 1755 Rousseau 's discovery of the noble savage had made some men think twice before dismissing the barbaric out of hand , and Milton 's ‘ arched walks of twilight groves ’ were thought to resemble the aspiring arches of the Gothic church . |
| 10 | The double-headed eagle is thought to represent the united empires of the east and the west . |
| 11 | Calcium ionophore treatment is thought to mimic the natural signal responsible for the editing out of self-active T cells in the thymus . |
| 12 | The conversion of the UK vote is thought to offer the best chance of reaching the required total of 54 votes . |
| 13 | Warm , loving and consistent discipline , in which reasons are given ( when the child can understand them ) , is thought to produce the rational sort of ‘ obedience ’ rather than the mindless and emotionally dependent following of orders . |
| 14 | The swirling blood is thought to make the purring noise , the diaphragm acting as an amplifier of the vibrations . |
| 15 | The new portrait was a bland adaptation of a Classical Greek figure , the spear-carrier created by the sculptor Polyclitus ( p.18 ) , which was thought to embody the ideal qualities of the human body and spirit . |
| 16 | The corpse road avoided the villages along the route for fear that the spirit of the dead should be enticed to return , a fear that in fact stemmed from Norse mythology , in which the corpse way was thought to mirror the last journey of the soul from the earth into the underworld . |
| 17 | For instance , the Catholic Church once followed what was known as the ‘ 40-and 80-day rule ’ , whereby the soul was thought to enter the male fetus 40 days after conception and the female after 80 days . |
| 18 | For many years , this duty was thought to require the appointed members of the authority to approve personally the transmission of programmes which might contravene the duties set out in s4 . |