Example sentences of "what [was/were] thought to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He went to see a young clergyman , seized by what was thought to be a dangerous illness : |
| 3 | Back with Miss Maine I was shown what was thought to be the trickiest of all the work I must do . |
| 4 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 5 | P1344 never made it , being forced down in what was thought to be Finland on the night of the 4th/5th . |
| 6 | Pieces were collected and laid out in what was thought to be their correct positions . |
| 7 | He was laid low by what was thought to be a stomach bug during the club 's trip to Norway last week . |
| 8 | This had happened at what was thought to be the king 's deathbed on 6 March 1093 . |
| 9 | In this way , the uncertainty principle allows particles to escape from what was thought to be the ultimate prison , a black hole . |
| 10 | The second also reproduces what was thought to be the common law . |
| 11 | Like the British , the Danes have watched with growing alarm as the institutions of the EEC have begun to take control of matters far beyond what was thought to be their original remit . |
| 12 | If the policy regime changes then so will what was thought to be the constant structure . |
| 13 | On June 14 , 1989 , the largest and most expensive US space booster , the Titan-4 , was launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , successfully deploying what was thought to be a secret military satellite capable of providing early warning of nuclear attack . |
| 14 | By the evening of Jan. 26 between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 barrels of oil were estimated to have poured into the Gulf , in what was thought to be the worst oil spillage in history [ for March 1989 Exxon Valdez spill see pp. 36541 ; 36606 ] . |
| 15 | But one criticism made later in the same commentary drew attention to what was thought to be missing " above all , two things : one of them a sense of history , both a broad and more local framework within which the achievement of these schools can be placed and evaluated ; the other a sense of the actual texture of the schools themselves " ( Tizard et al. |
| 16 | A search for what was thought to be a body has been called off after police found an aircraft cargo net . |
| 17 | There was excitement the night before the Sale opened , when what was thought to be Winston Churchill 's autograph was found on the flyleaf of an old maggot-eaten book , which had found its way to Edinburgh , from a North-West frontier War early this century . |
| 18 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |