Example sentences of "thought to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All knowledge of life and lives , and indeed of history , is a good in itself , and seems likely to inform literary intelligence ; and in addition Amis 's novels would rather confuse if thought to be the work of an early Tudor writer . |
| 2 | It 's worthwhile reading some pre-Shakespearean drama ; you could read Everyman , a great morality play of the late Middle Ages , and Gammer Gurton 's Needle , first performed in 1566 and thought to be the second oldest English comedy . |
| 3 | The active ingredient in garlic is thought to be the compound alliin . |
| 4 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 5 | It is thought to be the largest British dairy farm to go green , and the conversion — for deeply held environmental reasons — is backed by sound economic logic . |
| 6 | The moves to stem wildcat stoppages , condemned by unions and the Labour Party and the independent Industrial Society — are thought to be the first time ministers have sought to legislate against the individual . |
| 7 | The worst difficulty came with his brother Frank , whom Ramsey thought to be the cleverest person he knew . |
| 8 | It is not clear which , the anger or the boredom , was thought to be the more insulting , but both were expressed as that arrogance for which he was often hated . |
| 9 | Across the way in the main hall dominated by Renault and Peugeot/Citroen was Activa II , a big handsome XM coupe built just for show , but thought to be the type of car BMW should have built instead of the 850i . |
| 10 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 11 | In cases where life imprisonment was thought to be the appropriate sentence , the trial judge would still specify — in open court — the number of years to be spent in prison , taking the gravity of the offence into account , and release would be determined by a judicial tribunal . |
| 12 | In talking about what is good in the Protestant way of life , even evangelical Protestants go beyond theology and begin to list things that are thought to be the results of the right religion . |
| 13 | Poll tax evasion is thought to be the main reason for the falling numbers . |
| 14 | Known for his baby face and beloved Koch and Heckler sub-machine gun , Arkan controls a highly-disciplined shock force thought to be the most able and ruthless Serbian guerrilla group to have emerged during Yugoslavia 's tumultuous collapse . |
| 15 | In the 15th century the town and its palace were thought to be the most beautiful in all Italy . |
| 16 | The C2s ( skilled workers to lower management , broadly ) are courted , flattered and endlessly solicited for their opinions , since they are thought to be the deciding factor in the election . |
| 17 | The killing of the bird caused dismay to the RSPB because it was released in Scotland and is thought to be the first to have made its way to southern England from a release programme . |
| 18 | The UN has targeted eight of 90 buildings at Al Atheer , a multi-million pound complex thought to be the centre of President Saddam Hussein 's attempt at a nuclear bomb . |
| 19 | This is thought to be the first such judgment on a privatised water company . |
| 20 | For 84% of the farms the practical type courses already provided by the ATB were thought to be the most suitable method of providing training . |
| 21 | His self portrait with his dog is often thought to be the inspiration for John Bull and his bulldog . |
| 22 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 23 | The crypt that remains here is thought to be the best-preserved Romanesque crypt in Lombardy and contains remains from paleo-Christian times through to the Renaissance . |
| 24 | After them , the mill belonged to a Mr Chapman , thought to be the man who was running the nearby Sevilles Mill . |
| 25 | These testimonies , including interviews with Panamanian human rights monitors , hospital workers , ambulance drivers and funeral home directors , led ICI to conclude that US strategy involved the use of military terror to eliminate or intimidate specific sectors of the population thought to be the most likely to resist . |
| 26 | The most obvious reason why there is a greater concern with visual images than with the printed word may be thought to be the emergence of the new media — film , television and even the computer . |
| 27 | In the early post-war period , the British welfare state was thought to be the envy of much of the industrialized world . |
| 28 | Until recently the Antikythera mechanism was thought to be the sole surviving example of mathematical gearing in the Hellenistic tradition . |
| 29 | However the largest single source of the pollution for Canada is thought to be the nickel and copper smelting plant at Sudbury , Ontario which emits over a million tonnes of sulphur dioxide every year . |
| 30 | But you , with Mr Attlee , were thought to be the most unworldly of post-war prime ministers on that . |