Example sentences of "thought to have be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 1.8-metre-square platform in the south-east corner is thought to have been a bed . |
| 2 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 3 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 4 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 5 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 6 | The human rights organization Amnesty International had called for a full investigation of the incident , thought to have been a reprisal for recent attacks by the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Azawad , which marked the collapse of a peace agreement signed in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 7 | Last summer the crew of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 inbound to Gatwick filed an airmiss report claiming that a small black lozenge-shaped object , thought to have been a balloon , had passed within 100 yards of the airliner at FL140 over Surrey . |
| 8 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 9 | Believed to have crashed in October 1942 after a dogfight with a Luftwaffe fighter over occupied Normandy , the pilot is thought to have been a Fleet Air Arm Lieutenant . |
| 10 | Rhun is thought to have been a son of Urien of Rheged ( see above , p. 78 ) , and Oswiu 's marriage to Riemmelth may have cemented an alliance with the north British principality of Rheged as another important strand in the web of alliances which conspired to overthrow Eadwine . |
| 11 | This is variously thought to have been a half-man , a half-beast , or a deformed child of one of the Earls of Strathmore . |
| 12 | In contrast , by the time we get to the division over the standing army in 1699 — normally thought to have been a Court–Country rather than a party issue — there were only 36 Whigs out of a total of 221 on the Country side . |
| 13 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 14 | What was thought to have been an alga growing on sandstone rocks in a dry valley of Antarctica , was identified only two years ago by a Smithsonian botanist as a lichen . |
| 15 | Police said that although the explosion was not thought to have been an accident no one was being sought . |
| 16 | Her death on Monday was first thought to have been an accident , but a coroner ordered police to investigate . |
| 17 | ( h ) Octavian , later Augustus , heir to Julius Caesar , portrayed on a coin minted in 36–31 BC. ( c ) Antiochus III , King of Syria ( 223–187 BC ) , Is thought to have been the model for the portraits of Octavian made at this period . |
| 18 | This rich group of textiles were made by the Banjara gypsies of India , whose predecessors are thought to have been the world 's original gypsy stock . |
| 19 | In AD857 King Ludwig the German placed the village under the protection of the Zurich Fraumunster abbey , and one of the towers , the Meierturm is thought to have been the seat of the abbey 's bailiff in Burglen . |
| 20 | Taligent was conceived as a standalone developer of technology ; HP has worked closely with IBM and Sun on objects and the deal for IBM to port its Distributed System Object Model — DSOM — to the HP 's PA RISC architecture is thought to have been the impetus for the COSE initiative ( UX No 425 ) . |
| 21 | Taligent was conceived as a stand-alone developer of technology : Hewlett-Packard has worked closely with IBM and Sun on objects and the deal for IBM to convert its Distributed Systems Object Model — DSOM — for Hewlett-Packard 's Precision Architecture RISC architecture is thought to have been the impetus for the Common Open Software Environment initiative . |