Example sentences of "think have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that time , more than 20,000 babies are thought to have been born as a result of this technique . |
| 2 | Like the earlier incidents the raid was thought to have been motivated by a desire within the Papuan military to cut fuel supplies to the Bougainville rebels . |
| 3 | The village is thought to have been named after a Roman officer , Amboniacus , at the time when the Emperor Probus ordered the replanting of vineyards throughout Gaul . |
| 4 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 5 | He is thought to have been killed with a high-powered long-range rifle , possibly an American-made Barrett ( Light Fifty ) which has a range of up to 1,800 metres and fires half-inch rounds . |
| 6 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 7 | Bernard was thought to have been killed in a car-bomb attack a year and a half ago . |
| 8 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 9 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 10 | The figures are thought to have been adapted from a cycle of statues made by the sculptor Lysippus for a sanctuary at Alezia ( Acarnania , Greece ) in the 4th century BC and later brought to Rome . |
| 11 | Sick cattle or children are thought to have been harmed by a Dark Elf 's arrow , as Collins wrote : |
| 12 | It is thought to have been taken in a burglary and police want to hear from anyone who believes they own it . |
| 13 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
| 14 | A FATHER yesterday held the hand of the daughter he thought had been killed in a plane crash . |
| 15 | A HEROIC six-year-old was reunited yesterday with the friend he thought had been killed by a hit-and-run driver . |