Example sentences of "thought to have be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 2 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 3 | It is thought to have been built by the Earls of Ross in about 1590 and a new wing , including a brewhouse and bakery , added in 1623 . |
| 4 | This is the brick constructed remains of a hunting lodge , thought to have been built by Ralph Cromwell , the Lord Treasurer . |
| 5 | Mrs Ellen Morpeth is thought to have been overcome by fumes after the chair she was sitting on caught fire . |
| 6 | Like the earlier incidents the raid was thought to have been motivated by a desire within the Papuan military to cut fuel supplies to the Bougainville rebels . |
| 7 | These had been thought to have been indicated by the British prime minister in a speech at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 7 September 1992 . |
| 8 | The CDU 's showing was thought to have been affected by the allegations against Bartoncik on the eve of the elections . |
| 9 | Their discoveries have worrying implications for the 600,000 people thought to have been affected by the release of radiation . |
| 10 | In days of old , he was thought to have been ridden by one of the Foawr , fabled giants who threw stones at the earth as they passed overhead . |
| 11 | Presumably its resources were thought to have been supplanted by those of the advertising agency that helped the Conservative Party to power . |
| 12 | The letter was thought to have been heard by one-quarter of the population . |
| 13 | Indeed several attempts were made on her life , until finally one day she was found dead on the rocks , thought to have been killed by gelignite . |
| 14 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sharks , killer whales , and false killer whales are believed to present some threat to dolphins - scar marks thought to have been caused by shark attack have been observed . |
| 17 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Fergie 's ill temper was thought to have been caused by an argument on the telephone with Texan pal Johnny Bryan . |
| 20 | The problems of all five aircraft were thought to have been caused by fuel with a low octane level . |
| 21 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 22 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 23 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 24 | But this is still modest compared with the quantity thought to have been consumed by our ancestors and the quantity being consumed , today , by societies in the underdeveloped world . |
| 25 | Reports on Aug. 2 said that hundreds of people were killed after an explosion at an arms depot in Kabul thought to have been triggered by rockets fired by mujaheddin . |
| 26 | These two buildings were , therefore , clearly under military control , and it is most likely that they represented a collection centre for the annona militaris , a tax thought to have been introduced by Severus . |
| 27 | Several kinds of apples still remained in Britain from Roman times , like the dessert apple , Decio — thought to have been introduced by the Roman general , Etio . |
| 28 | Curtin et al reported ventricular fibrillation in a 42-year-old woman within 3 min of injection , thought to have been induced by vasospasm . |
| 29 | Terrorist action hit central London again this week when a firebomb , thought to have been planted by the IRA , exploded in Dillons , Trafalgar Square , early on Wednesday morning . |
| 30 | President Pierre Buyoya refused to accept their resignations , amid an increased atmosphere of tension after a bomb , thought to have been planted by members of the minority Tutsi group , exploded in Bujumbura on Nov. 4 , 1989 . |