Example sentences of "was think to [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government ministers tried to stem the tide of mounting public expenditure : John Nott 's replacing Francis Pym at the Ministry of Defence in January 1981 was thought to be a pointer in this direction . |
| 2 | Even in London this was thought to be a drawback . |
| 3 | Her successor , John Major , was thought to be a pragmatist who would heal the split on Europe . |
| 4 | Mrs Leather gave a similar instance of jading a horse from Herefordshire but without deducing anything from it except that the old woman concerned was thought to be a witch . |
| 5 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 6 | He was laid low by what was thought to be a stomach bug during the club 's trip to Norway last week . |
| 7 | Until lately , Turkey 's worst fear was thought to be a vacuum in northern Iraq , leaving room for an autonomous Kurdish entity — which , in its turn , would be a beacon for the separatist movement on Turkish soil . |
| 8 | Their name signified ‘ sons of Zadok ’ , the high priest at the time of David who was thought to be a descendant of the younger son of Aaron . |
| 9 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 10 | A search for what was thought to be a body has been called off after police found an aircraft cargo net . |
| 11 | By the time of Ramesses IV in the Twentieth Dynasty , Amenhotep was worshipped as a dead king and was thought to be an intermediary between men and gods , particularly in relation to Amun , god of Thebes . |
| 12 | One seen at Wittersham from 8–15 August 1974 was thought to be an escape from captivity . |
| 13 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 14 | The incentive for the NPA to participate in the negotiations was thought to be the possibility of gaining the release of some of the many hundreds of its members and supporters currently in prison . |
| 15 | The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time . |
| 16 | The rational expectations hypothesis does not pose a threat to Keynesian theory in the way that was thought to be the case when it first entered into macroeconomics . |
| 17 | This had happened at what was thought to be the king 's deathbed on 6 March 1093 . |
| 18 | At Lourdes , Bernadette Soubirous saw what she described as ‘ that thing ’ , which was thought to be the ghost of a local girl . |
| 19 | The assassination on May 10 of Col. ( retd ) Luis Fontaine , the former head of DICOM-CAR , a specialist intelligence unit dealing in repression of opponents of the previous dictatorship , was thought to be the work of right-wing elements . |
| 20 | In the early post-war period , the British welfare state was thought to be the envy of much of the industrialized world . |
| 21 | A FIVE million year-old piece of bone that was thought to be the collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib , according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley . |
| 22 | In 1941 a bomb fell on the College and it was thought to be the end of Halling Man but the bones were found with the relative animal bones and sent to the British Museum ( Natural History ) . |
| 23 | Local superiority of numbers was thought to be the key to such a victory . |
| 24 | Markets were buoyant and the maintenance of a high level of demand was thought to be the key to sustained prosperity . |
| 25 | The Code was thought to be the answer to misbehaviour . |