Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] thought [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's thought the ritual burial was to ward off evil spirits .
2 It 's thought the main school will not reopen until September nineteen ninety three when all repairs have been completed .
3 It is thought the only survivor of the five escaped certain death by jumping out of the back of their workers ' van into a garden .
4 This is because it is thought the human brain is not preprogrammed to recognize all the senses separately , but learns to correlate them in childhood .
5 But when Cecilia was married in 1940 and first went to live there it was thought a poor sort of house , semi-detached , shabby and in a dowdy district .
6 It was thought a generous declaration — but not in the light of Wales 's batting in their first innings .
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