Example sentences of "thought [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet Stewart 's small wandering world could well be thought the richer of the two environments . |
| 2 | I would have thought the UK hotelier would have nothing to fear from a European directive , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Though not an out-and-out cheapskate , he was thought the kind of man who would try to squeeze a shilling into a pound by whatever means . |
| 4 | Thames Water , the biggest , has traditionally been thought the most attractive . |
| 5 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 6 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 7 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't have thought The Times was Clasper 's favourite paper , exactly , ’ he muttered to his mate . |
| 9 | You may have thought the film Animal House was a joke , but in the US college fraternities are a serious business . |
| 10 | The Lord had promised his presence to two or three agreeing in his name : consecrations by only two bishops occasionally occurred , but three were usually thought the minimum , all the bishops of the province being desirable . |
| 11 | My 1982 Land Rover Stage I V8 station wagon performs well at low speeds , but when pulling in the gears or at higher speeds , lacks the power I would have thought the V8 should deliver . |
| 12 | Who would have thought the old man could be so clever ? |
| 13 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 14 | Nutty , having just thought the same thing changed her mind instantly . |
| 15 | ‘ Who 'd have thought the old bugger would come to life like that ! ’ she said to Nutty afterwards . |
| 16 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , top marks have been awarded to the 3rd Shortfields Pack , whose tableau of Brownies through the years was thought the most original and apt . ’ |
| 17 | However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting . |
| 18 | This is because it is thought the human brain is not preprogrammed to recognize all the senses separately , but learns to correlate them in childhood . |
| 19 | Sadly , experience suggests that most doctors would have thought the booklet to be just more advertising for Opren and thrown it straight into their wastepaper basket , unless the representative drew particular attention to the studies in question . |
| 20 | One might have thought the work more appropriately done on the Isle of Sandwich . |
| 21 | The atmosphere is charged ( worth noting : the building of the Berlin wall is mere months away ) , the singing good ( thought the voice occasionally sounds overworked as in Take the A Train ) , the intonation typical Ella ( spot-on ) and the songs typically ‘ Fitzgerald in Concert ’ . |
| 22 | He had never thought the reflection which looked back at him each morning from the shaving mirror was particularly handsome . |
| 23 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 24 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 25 | Parson James Woodforde must have thought the throne was already shaking when , as he described in his diary on 29 October 1795 , he saw the prince 's father being grossly insulted as he drove in the state coach through St James 's Park . |
| 26 | There seems to be no particular reason why the event is triennial , apart from the fact that it was thought the pole should be inspected , repaired and repainted at intervals of no longer than three years . |
| 27 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 28 | It is thought the name means ‘ the enclosure of the family of Loca ’ and the settlement dates from Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 29 | She had thought the department store that stood opposite the theatre unassailable in its pale-green elegance . |
| 30 | M. Forster ’ ; he would very much have preferred to be thought the author of dull , upper-class novels , like those of Maurice Baring . ) |