Example sentences of "[adv] thought to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 2 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |
| 3 | The complex structures of the Gower Peninsula , and in particular the Cefn Bryn and Bishopston thrusts , are generally thought to be the continuation of the Front south of the South Wales coalfield . |
| 4 | These are objects for which the compact object is normally thought to be a neutron star ; the most popular model for the QPOs involves interaction between an accretion flow and the magnetosphere of the neutron star . |
| 5 | Whereas Kazakhstan was already thought to be a springboard for additional territorial acquisitions , Siberia , as yet , was not . |
| 6 | This was widely thought to be a good omen . |
| 7 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 8 | The end-Ordovician regression is indeed widely thought to be the result of the growth of a Saharan ice sheet . |
| 9 | THE recent rise in global-mean surface air temperature is widely thought to be the result of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases , but there are discrepancies between the predicted response of the atmosphere to this radiative forcing and the observed temperature changes . |
| 10 | The solution has been found by submitting the agreement to English law , widely thought to be the fairest and most flexible , and therefore used for many international transactions . |
| 11 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 12 | This was widely thought to be the factor which attracted Iranians to the Pasdaran and others , young and old , to the baeej , or volunteer corps . |
| 13 | Linear chains of oceanic volcanoes , such as the Hawaiian and Society Islands , that occur when lithospheric plates drift over a ‘ hotspot ’ , are now widely thought to be the surface manifestation of mantle plumes , columns of hot rock that rise buoyantly from the deep mantle . |
| 14 | So no bug-eyed monsters which I had always thought to be the cheapest form of science fiction . |
| 15 | This was once thought to be a productive and praiseworthy way to make the best of almost useless land ; but now environmental groups point out how this practice can involve the destruction of important wet-land and wilderness . |
| 16 | Just before it joins the urethra , the vas sprouts a small sac , the seminal vesicle , once thought to be a store for spermatozoa but now believed to be simply another gland which adds its secretion to the ejaculate . |
| 17 | Nuclear power , once thought to be a way to buy time while fixing all of the above problems , has become discredited following the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 18 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |
| 19 | It has been true in parts for a period of British politics but it is not the theoretical key to unlock the essence of things as was once thought to be the case . |
| 20 | 3 Elections and party politics are rather less significant in securing democracy and representative and responsible government than was once thought to be the case . |
| 21 | One of the attributes of a good witch was to be able to brew love potions on demand , and lovage acquired its name because it was once thought to be an aphrodisiac and was therefore an essential ingredient of such recipes . |
| 22 | When he led the England A side in Pakistan , early last year , he was still thought to be a limited captain , possibly through limited self-belief . |
| 23 | It was originally described in 1935 , but later thought to be a form of ‘ C. ’ melanurum . |
| 24 | This nevertheless leaves the concealed area perceived to be prospective roughly double that formerly thought to be the case ( Harris et al. 1981 ) . |
| 25 | The Havelok text ( Bodleian MS Laud Misc 108 ) is one of those sources that has been traditionally thought to be the work of an Anglo-Norman scribe ( Sisam , 1915 ) on the grounds that the spelling is highly variable in the respects specified by Skeat and indeed in some other respects also . |
| 26 | He is also thought to be the same as the Asclepiodatus who was patricius of Provence , and was the recipient of letters from Gregory the Great in 599 and 601 . |
| 27 | In contributing towards the creation of the properly trained worker , adaptability was also thought to be an indispensable element in the struggle to reduce unemployment , ( what Sadler called ‘ human waste ’ ) , though its direct impact was the subject of some discussion . |
| 28 | There is not much other evidence for any kind of standing army : the classic historians of the fifth century speak of the Ten Thousand ‘ Immortals ’ , but that word is now thought to be a mistranslation of an Old Persian word meaning ‘ followers ’ , which takes one straight back to feudalism . |
| 29 | Since the 1950s , radioactive waste from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield has been discharged directly into the Irish Sea , now thought to be the most radioactive waters in the world . |
| 30 | They are now thought to be the oldest planked boats built anywhere in the world outside Egypt . |