Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of her associates were intellectuals and artists ; some were thought to be liberals , even leftists . |
| 2 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 3 | One of the brown immigrants deliberately poured some of his coffee over the pale slab of sugar crusted fruit pie he was eating , and this was thought to be a brilliant piece of improvised humour . |
| 4 | This was thought to be due to the fact that the smaller wheels were leading , but the Metropolitan Electric tramways which had some similar cars on almost identical bogies , turned the bogies round on one of their cars ( No. 25 ) and it made no appreciable difference . |
| 5 | Even in London this was thought to be a drawback . |
| 6 | In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 per cent per year . |
| 7 | At one time , two-pipe house drainage systems were designed to keep waste water and soil water completely separate until they entered the underground drains and to prevent ‘ drain air ’ entering the house : in Victorian times this was thought to be responsible for all manner of ills . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was thought to be the first time for nearly 70 years that police had fired on a white crowd in South Africa . |
| 10 | This was thought to be due to the lack of the acid neutralising effect of the saliva . |
| 11 | Erm the shot gun is preferable in these cases , the fact that er they are used generally as a support weapon erm should we ent encounter any problems in the area that I was covering , this was thought to be the best weapon capable of doing that job . |
| 12 | The fear must be that Clinton might unpick some of the deals , such as the one on agriculture , but this was thought to be unlikely , given his commitment to moving out of recession . |
| 13 | This was thought by trade unionists to be inconsistent with the leading decision of ten years before which had protected employers ' associations from conspiracy on the ground that the acts had been done ‘ with the lawful object of protecting and extending their trade and increasing their profits ’ without employing unlawful means , although the consequence had been to injure their competitors . |
| 14 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 15 | The latter were thought to be Yak-9s , considered ‘ one of the USSR 's better conventional fighters , which compares well with USAF 's F-51 ’ . |
| 16 | The Lords of the West Marches and their Commissioners from both sides of the border , wherever that was thought to be at the time , met there to resolve complaints and grievances . |
| 17 | Some patients had voiced initial apprehension about their continuing to receive medication , but most were thought to be neutral about fundholding . |