Example sentences of "[was/were] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | These was felt to be an excessive use in the Act of phrases such as ‘ consult ’ , ‘ challenge ’ , ‘ take note of ’ and ‘ reasonable ’ , which were thought by many to be vague and open to interpretation . |
| 2 | Electrical and communications technology at this time was such that induction coils were thought to allow faster working than batteries . |
| 3 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 4 | Both were thought odd by their contemporaries . |
| 5 | If the people of Lincolnshire were thought by their bishop not to understand Ramsey in a pulpit , this was not the opinion outside the diocese . |
| 6 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 7 | The 1959 election defeat and the growing embourgeoisement of the working class were thought to spell future electoral ruin for Labour . |
| 8 | The small circles on the ‘ ochred and pencilled ’ fireplace were thought to give spiritual protection to the occupants |
| 9 | Panamanian casualties , military and civilian , were thought to top 1,000 . |
| 10 | Conventional scientific wisdom has held that whales are relatively immune from the effects of toxic chemicals , because such contaminants were thought to be safely stored in the blubber , a tissue considered to be fairly inert . |
| 11 | In general , the Aristotelians were thought to lay too much stress on words and books , terminology and merely verbal classifications , and debate and controversy , and too little on things and observation of the world . |
| 12 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
| 13 | My problems are precisely the same as my father 's , but the climate 's different now : in those days , people who had large houses were thought to be plutocrats who ran society , the Establishment if you like . |
| 14 | The general story is well known : the director at Ulm saying you must go to better things , your dismissal , months of unemployment , and then the chance of the Aachen post despite the fact that at 27 years of age you were thought far too young for such an important post in German musical life . |
| 15 | The Platonic solids , the tetrahedron , cube , octahedron , dodecahedron and icosahedron , were thought by Plato , the Athenian philosopher , to have universal significance . |
| 16 | Cows were thought very unsightly when they were first introduced . |
| 17 | In the 15th century the town and its palace were thought to be the most beautiful in all Italy . |
| 18 | Most serious diseases were thought to arise from ‘ miasmas ’ , in other words , vapours or smells ( in some theories , fine clouds of sticky atoms ) which affected the balance of ‘ humours ’ in the body . |
| 19 | In Ayr , the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom , Phil Gallie , the successor to George Younger , held on by 85 votes seeing off Labour who were thought certain to seize the seat . |
| 20 | Two others , Des Walker and Brett Williams , were thought to be playing in spite of injuries , and the England defender was unable to continue beyond half-time . |
| 21 | For 84% of the farms the practical type courses already provided by the ATB were thought to be the most suitable method of providing training . |
| 22 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |
| 23 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 24 | Among those who did not have this facility , two-fifths were thought to have wanted it . |
| 25 | Overall the proportion with a room of their own was three-fifths and again two-fifths of those without one were thought to have wanted one . |
| 26 | When much of the country was maintained as a game preserve for shooting , all predators , including Polecats , were thought of as competition and ruthlessly trapped by game keepers . |
| 27 | Traditionally , soils were thought to have such enormous chemical reservoirs that they could buffer any realistic pollution impact but recent evidence shows they are much more vulnerable . |
| 28 | The theme of enhancing Henley is promoted hard during the early years of the Club when backers were eagerly sought — especially from amongst the traders of the town and others in business who were thought most likely to gain from the project . |
| 29 | Sediments containing such radionuclides were thought by the nuclear scientists to sink to the bottom of the sea bed , and stay there . |
| 30 | 23 Two of the four preludes , K.284a & equals K.396/300g ( ‘ praeambula ’ ) written for Nannerl , which , until recently , were thought not to have survived . |