Example sentences of "[be] think [to-vb] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 2 | However , what is thought to have been a discarded movement , a Gavotte in B flat major , K.300 , survives in autograph ( PLATE V ) . |
| 3 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 4 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 5 | Believed to have crashed in October 1942 after a dogfight with a Luftwaffe fighter over occupied Normandy , the pilot is thought to have been a Fleet Air Arm Lieutenant . |
| 6 | A 1.8-metre-square platform in the south-east corner is thought to have been a bed . |
| 7 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 8 | Rhun is thought to have been a son of Urien of Rheged ( see above , p. 78 ) , and Oswiu 's marriage to Riemmelth may have cemented an alliance with the north British principality of Rheged as another important strand in the web of alliances which conspired to overthrow Eadwine . |
| 9 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 10 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 11 | The popular response to Luchembe 's broadcasts , however , was thought to have been a severe personal blow to Kaunda , the " father of the nation " . |
| 12 | This factor was thought to have been a key reason for Souter 's nomination , as Bush was eager to avoid repeating the divisive — and ultimately unsuccessful — struggle for Senate endorsement which had marked Reagan 's 1987 attempt to appoint the conservative Robert Bork [ see p. 35701 ] . |