Example sentences of "think by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both companies are thought by western intelligence to be part of Iraq 's international arms-procurement network and both have links with Anees Wadi , a suspected Iraqi agent who was expelled from Britain last year . |
| 2 | Sometimes a resident of one of those towns was thought by one of his fellow citizens to be particularly obnoxious or dangerous , even though it was not possible to prove anything against him in law . |
| 3 | Thought by one of the judges to make a good radio play . |
| 4 | In many transactions it is either necessary or thought by one of the parties to be commercially worthwhile to obtain consent for or approval of certain items before the business transfer is completed . |
| 5 | These was felt to be an excessive use in the Act of phrases such as ‘ consult ’ , ‘ challenge ’ , ‘ take note of ’ and ‘ reasonable ’ , which were thought by many to be vague and open to interpretation . |
| 6 | Though the island ( there are in fact several but all are now linked by causeways and bridges ) is only 600 miles off the South Carolina coast , it is thought by many of the tourists to be the genuine article — a part of England just spitting distance from Land 's End . |
| 7 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 8 | There are bills from London tailors and hat-makers and the same building holds the tomb of Anthony Foster , thought by many to be instrumental in the demise of this popular young woman . |
| 9 | When it is said in Psalms that the enemies will be smitten in the ‘ hinder parts ’ it has been thought by many people to refer to haemorrhoids , but the description could equally refer to the anal manifestations of secondary syphilis , condylomata lata . |
| 10 | The pulpit had won a victory over the theatre , and the stage was thought by many to be a thing of the devil . |
| 11 | Fish is thought by many to be ‘ brain-food ’ . |
| 12 | It was thought by many to be far from impressive in its conformation and action but the experienced Kilpatrick recognised its potential and tried to buy it . |
| 13 | Erik Satie is still thought by many people as something of a curiosity , albeit an important and influential one , in the history of French music . |
| 14 | On the other hand , seasonal employment is thought by many to be a convenient source of casual work which enables extra income to be earned without the ties of a more permanent job . |
| 15 | It used to be thought by many scientists that the armoured plates stuck outwards , as in Stegosaurus , in order to hit enemies approaching from the side . |
| 16 | The big Levin ‘ Goliath ’ is thought by many to be equal to Martin 's Dreadnought in sweetness , tonality , power and playability , possessing its own ‘ voice ’ and with volume to spare . |
| 17 | It 's thought by many to be the most beautiful of the Cuillin corries and takes the hillwalker in among the most impressive peaks . |
| 18 | The great silver decadrachm of Syracuse ( fig. 84 ) , commonly associated with the historically attested ‘ Demarateion ’ of 479 but now thought by many scholars to be a decade or more later , is a marvellous example . |
| 19 | The style is thought by many to be the fastest of all karate schools . |
| 20 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 21 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 22 | Characterization of particles in terms of their dynamic behaviour is thought by many to be more environmentally significant than direct measurement of particles with calipers or sieves . |
| 23 | In short , it was thought by many that the nature of the children 's hearing system would make it unnecessary to enact rules for ‘ wiping the slate clean ’ . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , Orton 's anarchic irresponsibility was thought by some to go too far , not just in what he actually did , but in the refusal in his work to confront established morality with an earnest moral alternative . |
| 25 | A swing of 20 per cent to these , if repeated across the country , would produce an Opinion Poll Government , thought by some to be the ultimate embodiment of democratic values . |
| 26 | Billy Callender , Palace 's regular goalkeeper from 1926–32 , was thought by some of his contemporaries to have sufficient skill and character to follow his illustrious predecessor , Jack Alderson , not just as the Crystal Palace custodian but also the full England International Side itself . |
| 27 | He practised engraving , etching , mezzotinting , and water colouring , all of which arts , according to Roeder , he had learnt in Manchester and not in London as had been thought by some . |
| 28 | I found it to be a splendid panegyric on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , though to present a history of nuclear power without even mentioning the existence of hydrogen bombs , may be thought by some to overdo the euphoria . |
| 29 | Carvings to this pattern , thought by some to date from 1500BC , have been found in Rocky Valley , near Tintagel in Cornwall . |
| 30 | A round arch near the pulpit is thought by some authorities to belong to an earlier period . |