Example sentences of "[conj] is thought [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | As is evident from Table 1 and Fig. 1 , this is considerably more mass loss than is thought to occur for early K giants . |
| 4 | CREB is able to bind to promoters that are induced by a variety of agents other than cAMP ( including Ca 2+ ( 8 , 9 ) and the adenovirus E1A protein ( 10 , 11 , 12 ) ) and is thought to activate a functionally diverse array of genes in response to elevated cAMP . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In normal embryos this surface polarity is indicative of a profound reorganization of the embryo which develops at the 8-cell stage and is thought to underlie the process of cell divergence ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The present building was originally a corn mill , and is thought to have been built around the mid-18th century . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |
| 16 | Northumbria Police are trying to trace relatives of Thomas Law , 77 , of Canterbury Street , South Shields , who died of natural causes on Thursday and is thought to have had relatives in Teesside . |
| 17 | It is now down to 126,000 employees and is thought to want to get that down to 100,000 by December . |
| 18 | 5-Aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) is the active ingredient of sulphasalazine in ulcerative colitis , and is thought to work by a local mechanism . |
| 19 | This susceptibility is not caused by a single gene defect but is thought to result from the cumulative interaction of a number of genes . |
| 20 | Its date is uncertain but is thought to have been about 9Myr , and it is placed at this date on the phylogeny in Box 3 ( identified as SH ) . |
| 21 | The exact mechanism for ascorbate induced haemolysis in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is uncertain but is thought to entail generation of hydrogen peroxide and other reactive oxygen species , which rapidly exhaust the limited glutathione supply . |