Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] think that [noun pl] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's thought that badgers may transmit the disease , and now new tests may be introduced to try to combat the problem . |
| 2 | It 's thought that badgers can pass tuberculosis to cattle , but until now the only known test for TB involved killing the badger first . |
| 3 | It is thought that molecules must collide with each other in a favourable spacial orientation for a successful reaction to occur . |
| 4 | In contrast , high-rise housing was originally intended in part to undermine this definition of the domestic ideal ; by using a quite different urban built form and providing communal facilities such as creches and canteens , it was thought that women would be liberated both from the ideology of domesticity and its actuality . |
| 5 | It is not clear precisely why it was thought that inferences might be drawn from this revelation , but if they might , the jury should not be left alone to draw them . |