Example sentences of "thought [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | America is thought to support the Irishman 's candidacy . |
| 2 | Observers noted that Georgy Khizha and Vladimir Shumeiko did not attend , although as ministers brought into the government from the defence industry sector in May [ see p. 38923 ] they were thought to support the interest group represented at the conference . |
| 3 | In alcoholic hepatic cirrhosis , T-cells are thought to support the production of cytokines by liver macrophages and these factors then regulate the fibrotic process . |
| 4 | Sleeping tablets are not recommended , partly because the kind of sleep that they induce is not thought to include the dream sleep that our bodies and minds urgently need . |
| 5 | Magnesium is thought to affect the heart muscle . |
| 6 | It was known that fasting could cause hallucinations , and extreme weather conditions were thought to affect the mind . |
| 7 | The existence of a National Health Service paid for out of taxpayers ' money in the UK is also thought to affect the claims level . |
| 8 | The corpse road avoided the villages along the route for fear that the spirit of the dead should be enticed to return , a fear that in fact stemmed from Norse mythology , in which the corpse way was thought to mirror the last journey of the soul from the earth into the underworld . |
| 9 | In humans it 's thought to stimulate the body 's own natural painkillers . |
| 10 | The combination of high precipitation , water surpluses , large number of wet days and low insolation experienced in highly oceanic areas is thought to increase the rate of growth and the competitive abilities of bryophytes , notably Sphagnum species , hypnoid mosses and Racomitrium ( Poore & McVean 1957 ) , all of which are very conspicuous in plant communities in the Western Isles . |
| 11 | One reason why this principle in its most general form was not thought to provide the foundation of a general doctrine of consent and voluntary obligations is the widespread belief that ‘ causing ’ another to act is , at least in the matter of individual responsibility , unlike causing a natural event . |
| 12 | Proposal documents inevitably employed statements of broad aim couched in general terms and expressed in a way thought to meet the Coordinating Team 's expectations . |
| 13 | Driven mad with grief by the loss of her child , she is thought to wander the streets weeping and crying out a ghostly memory of the pre-Conquest past . |
| 14 | The slow transit rate of fibre-depleted diets is also thought to encourage the formation of these potentially dangerous substances within the body — and to leave them in contact with the gut for too long . |
| 15 | With rapid and sustained economic growth more capital becomes available to finance investment in labour saving machinery , and higher labour rewards in the advanced sector of industry are thought to encourage the mobility of labour away from the small firm sector . |
| 16 | Each sex was thought to monopolise the characteristics consistent with its proper sphere : for women , the private , for men the public . |
| 17 | Calcium ionophore treatment is thought to mimic the natural signal responsible for the editing out of self-active T cells in the thymus . |
| 18 | The bacteriophage infects the bacterium , Staphylococcus , by taking over its cell chemistry and it is thought to cause the production of a toxic substance which is poisonous to human cells . |
| 19 | But they are thought to destroy the ozone layer , which protects the earth from the sun 's rays . |
| 20 | Core Rule 28 may be thought to restrict the firm 's business unduly . |
| 21 | In 1755 Rousseau 's discovery of the noble savage had made some men think twice before dismissing the barbaric out of hand , and Milton 's ‘ arched walks of twilight groves ’ were thought to resemble the aspiring arches of the Gothic church . |
| 22 | Fighting will continue for as long as UNITA can smuggle in supplies , most of which are thought to reach the rebels by way of Zaire . |
| 23 | The biblical story is thought to reflect the then recent development of caravan routes , made possible by the domestication of the camel at the end of the first millennium BC . |
| 24 | As the arrangement of the repeats in a protein binding site is thought to reflect the structure of the active form of the protein , the most likely binding model is that CytR interacts with an inverted repeat . |
| 25 | The primacy effect is thought to reflect the operation of secondary memory , i.e. recall from a long-term memory store while the recency effect is believed to reflect the operation of primary memory , i.e recall from a short-term memory store ( Bernstein et al , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | At the same time , the article is tainted by what seems to be a desire to inflict damage on Levi 's reputation , of a kind which may be thought to serve the ideological tendency of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 27 | Conventionalism 's negative claim might also be thought to serve the popular ideal in a different way , though this depends on adding a set of claims about how judges should decide hard cases when convention has run out . |
| 28 | The butterfly , a common motif in Minoan art , is thought to symbolize the soul ( Alexiou , undated , p. 121 ) . |
| 29 | However , in addition to the mining ban , it is thought to cover the protection of the marine environment , the disposal of waste from the numerous research stations in the area , and the preservation of fauna and flora . |
| 30 | It is revealing , therefore , to see what sort of people are thought to fit the bill in these places . |