Example sentences of "[adj] was think [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even in London this was thought to be a drawback . |
| 4 | In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 per cent per year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was thought to be the first time for nearly 70 years that police had fired on a white crowd in South Africa . |
| 8 | This was thought to be due to the lack of the acid neutralising effect of the saliva . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But 90 was thought to be too many to be easily controlled from the centre , which meant retaining the existing tier of regional administration as an executive arm of government , while the variation in population size was tackled by creating a third tier of management in large areas : the district . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No detailed analysis has been conducted on the geographical distribution of the responses , since the likelihood of being able to extrapolate reliable trends on the basis of the information available was thought to be slight . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One seen at Wittersham from 8–15 August 1974 was thought to be an escape from captivity . |
| 17 | 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 . |