Example sentences of "now think [to-vb] been " in BNC.

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1 General Noriega detained two of the five colonels on his General Staff , both until now thought to have been loyal senior officers .
2 The ‘ Mess ’ is now thought to have been the Quartermaster 's Stores .
3 The gutter press particularly enjoyed the story , especially as the artifacts had belonged to a man now thought to have been murdered .
4 ( Tenure of this sort was once regarded as an exclusively late development ; but its roots are now thought to have been very old . )
5 Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray .
6 It is now thought to have been Richard , rather than his son Robert , who gave Godgifu , sister of the æthelings Edward and Alfred , in marriage to Count Dreux of the Vexin .
7 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 .
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