Example sentences of "was thought [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intelligence , by which alone such subjects were supposed to be understood , was thought to be wholly distinct from other , lower , faculties . |
| 2 | Such questions have become much harder to answer as a consequence of the Government 's astonishing success in closing the north-south divide , which was thought to be wholly irremediable when they came to office . |
| 3 | For a start , the figures exclude transactions that occurred on the last two business days of the month — the very time when pressure on the pound was thought to be most intense . |
| 4 | It was also a triumph over the devil , who was thought to be particularly active at death-beds , either gloating over the sinner who was about to fall into his clutches , or trying at the last moment to snatch a soul in the throes of fear or doubt . |
| 5 | Over 17 hands high , he had a girth which measured seventy-nine inches ( Secretariat 's girth was thought to be remarkably large at seventy-six inches ) and housed a heart which after his death tipped the scales at fourteen and a half pounds : the average for a Thoroughbred is around ten pounds . |
| 6 | In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 per cent per year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was thought to be too disruptive right now , given the soggy state of the economy . |
| 9 | One , in Heaton Norris , was not seriously considered , as that area was thought to be too near to Manchester Grammar School . |
| 10 | Instead , after varying lengths of time , they were discharged as being ‘ in remission ’ , i.e. their schizophrenia was thought to be still present , but not actually revealing itself in their behaviour . |
| 11 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the time the first radiocarbon dates were calculated , the half-life was thought to be around 5,568 years , and so early dates have had to be corrected . |
| 14 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 15 | The mathematical probability of any family producing a chess Grandmaster was thought to be relatively low ; the mathematical probability of producing three in a row goes off the chart . |
| 16 | A short , wiry Lebanese in his fifties , Talar lived aboard a partially finished 81-foot yacht , King Edmondo , with a tall , blonde Danish woman who towered over him and was known locally as ‘ Foofoo ’ , as she was thought to be somewhat strange . |
| 17 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 18 | The operation by fund managers was thought to be purely tactical , to avoid the risk of a sharp fall in the currency followed by an equally sharp rise should the next government decide to apply the remedy of higher interest rates . |
| 19 | West of our site was the Caducius which was thought to be fairly easy to locate as it was marked on the Admiralty Chart . |
| 20 | When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient : |