Example sentences of "[been] thought [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , it has often been thought that the progress of a military campaign , such as the invasions of the Germanic peoples into the northern Roman empire of the third and fourth centuries , could be plotted from the locations of hoards , or that areas with large numbers of hoards must have been relatively rich compared with other areas . |
| 2 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 3 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 4 | In the past it has been thought that the fault was greed , but this is too simple a view . |
| 5 | It might have been thought that the massive level of population decline experienced by Britain 's cities since the 1960s , principally affecting their inner areas as it did , would have helped to reduce these problems . |
| 6 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 7 | It had indeed been thought that the climate was too severe for wheat to grow further north , but the richness of the soil there , the abundance of river and lake water , and the intensity of the short summer soon exploded this theory . |
| 8 | It might have been thought that the arrival of so many neutral countries would render any Common Security policy impossible , but the Community institutions are alert to this ‘ danger ’ , and have stated that they will be rigorous in their application of the acquis to new members . |
| 9 | It had hitherto been thought that the effects of such emissions would be more localized . |
| 10 | Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall . |
| 11 | ‘ It had always been thought that the collection was part of the Edward Backhouse collection , ’ says Alec . |