Example sentences of "was thought [prep] [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loop was thought to be possible and there were those who claimed to have seen one . |
| 2 | Eventually this was thought to be precarious and the landowners were bought out by the Bishop 's Castle Railway Defence Trust to which my father had to contribute five hundred pounds . |
| 3 | Reza Khan was thought to be pro-British and the British Minister in Teheran simply told the Qajar Shah that the must co-operate ; so he did , Ironside , who had by now left the country , noted in his diary , " I fancy that all the people think I engineered the coup d'etate . |
| 4 | This committee was set up to review the Youth Service , which was thought to be demoralised and unprepared to deal with the increasing demand from the ‘ baby boom ’ children who were reaching adolescence . |
| 5 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |