Example sentences of "think [to-vb] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious how much better equipped the relevant authorities will be to prevent illegal exports or to retrieve a work of art thought to have been illegally exported when armed with a full description and photographs which enable title to be firmly established . |
| 2 | That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place . |
| 3 | Some of the waxworks in Tussaud 's Chamber of Horrors were thought to have been badly damaged |
| 4 | Shakespeare is thought to have been strongly influenced by Spenser in these choruses , for instance , and this might have been reflected in the comments . |
| 5 | It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 . |
| 6 | It is a symbolic episode echoing the experience of the primary school ( an experience which is generally thought to have been more successful and with which all units make connections ; most notably in the organization of an ‘ academic ’ morning and an ‘ activities ’ afternoon ) . |
| 7 | ( Tenure of this sort was once regarded as an exclusively late development ; but its roots are now thought to have been very old . ) |
| 8 | Then it 's on to Oxford and Crosby Hall in Chelsea , where the opera is thought to have been originally performed . |
| 9 | Recent research , aided by aerial photography , has revealed traces of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century formal gardens of a type that was thought to have been entirely destroyed during the naturalistic craze of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | It was at this time that he commissioned both Cooper and Sadler in the field , in recognition of their services , an action which was later thought to have been highly irregular . |
| 11 | The level of the roddons has probably been accentuated by the oxidation and consequent lowering of the level of the peat on either side , but the roddons are thought to have been always higher than the surrounding peat fen ( Godwin , 1938 ) . |