Example sentences of "[am/are] thought [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve people are thought to have been killed and 20 wounded since Thursday , including two militiamen killed by Syrian troops yesterday . |
| 2 | At least 100,000 fish are thought to have been killed , along with the insects and plants on which they depend . |
| 3 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 4 | In Europe the only flows of any consequence occur on small volcanic islands in the Mediterranean , the most famous of all being those on the island of Lipari , which are thought to have been erupted about 1,400 years ago . |
| 5 | Since that time , more than 20,000 babies are thought to have been born as a result of this technique . |
| 6 | Venezia are thought to have been altered slightly . |
| 7 | The earliest cetaceans are thought to have been related to primitive ungulates or hoofed mammals , who returned to the sea some 50 million years ago . |
| 8 | In Sweden , British species such as dog rose , cowslip and ladies ' bedstraw are thought to have been lost from polluted woods , where the nitrogen-loving nettle and acid-tolerant wood sorrel now occur . |
| 9 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 10 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 11 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 12 | They are thought to have been bought in the area of Coppull , near Chorley , where the couple met their deaths after being lured from their flat in Jericho Farm Walk , Aigburth , Liverpool , on April 27 . |
| 13 | Do you know that you are thought to have been imprisoned for debt ? ’ |
| 14 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 15 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 16 | They are thought to have been attached to wooden figures to carry a dead king 's crown in ceremonies expressing the continuity of royal office . |
| 17 | Sick cattle or children are thought to have been harmed by a Dark Elf 's arrow , as Collins wrote : |
| 18 | Many are thought to have been buried at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All three are thought to have been working as bouncers . |