Example sentences of "think to have [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 2 | It is thought to have been built by the Earls of Ross in about 1590 and a new wing , including a brewhouse and bakery , added in 1623 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These had been thought to have been indicated by the British prime minister in a speech at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 7 September 1992 . |
| 5 | The CDU 's showing was thought to have been affected by the allegations against Bartoncik on the eve of the elections . |
| 6 | Their discoveries have worrying implications for the 600,000 people thought to have been affected by the release of radiation . |
| 7 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 8 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fergie 's ill temper was thought to have been caused by an argument on the telephone with Texan pal Johnny Bryan . |
| 11 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 12 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Several kinds of apples still remained in Britain from Roman times , like the dessert apple , Decio — thought to have been introduced by the Roman general , Etio . |
| 15 | Terrorist action hit central London again this week when a firebomb , thought to have been planted by the IRA , exploded in Dillons , Trafalgar Square , early on Wednesday morning . |
| 16 | Sick cattle or children are thought to have been harmed by a Dark Elf 's arrow , as Collins wrote : |
| 17 | In England the chapel was fully manned in the time of Edward the Confessor ( though the title ‘ chancellor ’ is generally thought to have been instituted by the Normans ) . |
| 18 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
| 19 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 20 | 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 . |