Example sentences of "think [to-vb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kohl 's eventual support for Berlin was thought to have been influential in swaying several Bundestag members . |
| 2 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 3 | Though it is thought to have been first run in 1519 , it was not until 1619 that it was endowed by forty-nine local gentlemen . |
| 4 | In Britain umbrellas are thought to have been first used to protect people from the rain in Bath in the 1660s . |
| 5 | Relations between staff and management on the GWR were always thought to have been good , but the film calls that view into question . |
| 6 | The limited experiment was widely thought to have been successful . |
| 7 | West believed that his mother had murdered his father ; the idea preyed upon him and is thought to have been contributory to his early death . |
| 8 | General Noriega detained two of the five colonels on his General Staff , both until now thought to have been loyal senior officers . |
| 9 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 10 | Given the dating technique of the time Halling Man was thought to have been Aurignacian , taking him back to the closing phase of the Ice Age . |
| 11 | Watton was the RAF 's Central Signals Establishment and 192 is thought to have been involved in radio calibration duties . |
| 12 | A third public interest immunity certificate of the same date issued by the Secretary of State for Transport , relating to particular details of the explosive device thought to have been involved in the disaster , has now been withdrawn . |
| 13 | Police scoured the area around South Park and Feethams football ground yesterday searching for youths thought to have been involved in a break-in at a house in Polam Lane , Darlington . |
| 14 | In the early 790s Charlemagne is thought to have been anxious to secure Anglo-Saxon support against iconoclasm at the council of Frankfurt in 794 . |
| 15 | The first actual direct steam-driven flour mill is thought to have been that of Young and Co , of Bristol in 1780 , in Lewis Mead , near the city centre and powered by a Wasborough/Pickerd engine . |
| 16 | Activity in the banking and business services sector in the third quarter is now thought to have been unchanged , compared with the small fall originally reported . |
| 17 | Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances . |
| 18 | This level of poverty might be thought to have been peculiar to London , which was believed by contemporaries to have a greater concentration of poverty than elsewhere . |
| 19 | In so doing Clovis is thought to have been unique among the kings of the continental successor states . |
| 20 | Marbles fired from a catapult are thought to have been responsible . |
| 21 | Lobbying by groups such as Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature are thought to have been instrumental in the change . |