Example sentences of "[been] thought that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets .
2 It has been thought that damage of the tight junctions is morphologically represented by focal discontinuities and veriability in the numbers of tight junctional strands .
3 IT has long been thought that conditions at the boundary between the core and mantle influence the Earth 's magnetic field , but the supporting evidence is rather indirect .
4 It has been thought that caeruloplasmin lacks para-phenylenediamine-oxidase activity because of loss of copper binding ability .
5 It had previously been thought that pollution posed the greatest threat to inshore marine mammals .
6 It has been thought that aircraft maintenance problems i.e. planning/scheduling activities , aircraft system/equipment failure diagnosis , etc. , are too large and complex to be tackled successfully with computers .
7 It has been thought that Freud was assuming that there can be inheritance of acquired characteristics , an idea shown to be fallacious in modern biology .
8 It had been thought that Mr Prescott would replace Bryan Gould , the trade and industry spokesman .
9 Until now it has been thought that interferon can do little to prevent the initial entry of viruses into a cell .
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