Example sentences of "were think [to-vb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 2 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |
| 3 | Presumably its resources were thought to have been supplanted by those of the advertising agency that helped the Conservative Party to power . |
| 4 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 5 | The problems of all five aircraft were thought to have been caused by fuel with a low octane level . |
| 6 | Some of the waxworks in Tussaud 's Chamber of Horrors were thought to have been badly damaged |
| 7 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 8 | Later in my visit I travelled to a village where AIDS victims had been left to rot in a hut because they were thought to have been bewitched . |
| 9 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 10 | Based on Iraq 's own admission [ see above ] it was believed that the air war might have killed 20,000 ( of whom an estimated 1,000 were civilians ) , while a further 15,000 troops were thought to have been killed in the ground campaign . |
| 11 | More than 100 people were thought to have been killed in faction fighting in Natal and in townships around Johannesburg during March , mostly between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha but also involving the security forces . |
| 12 | From its peak combat strength of around 20,000 at the end of the Marcos era in 1985 , the guerrillas were thought to have been reduced to some 13,000 fighters by mid-1992 . |
| 13 | The arrests were thought to have been in connection with the discovery of 35 kg of semtex , the explosive used in the IRA London bombs . |
| 14 | They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi . |
| 15 | At first they were thought to have been victims of a crossbow bolt . |