Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] think to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 2 | Some gods , while keeping their usual forms , were also thought to be manifest in a living sacred animal , who was regarded as the Ba or power of god and was a cult image , herald and intermediary . |
| 3 | The building blocks of matter are the atoms which were originally thought to be indivisible . |
| 4 | He carried out experiments on the propagation of short and ultra-short radio waves , which were then thought to be unusable . |
| 5 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 6 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 7 | The first document , Curriculum 11–16 , was generally thought to be useful . |
| 8 | I certainly had a good time and judging by the sweat on everyone 's brow as they worked to perfect their routines I think it was generally thought to be enjoyable and worthwhile . |
| 9 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |
| 10 | The sliding scale for the disposal of large items was also thought to be unreasonable . |
| 11 | At that time , the adoption of floating exchange rates was also thought to be advantageous since the constraints of the gold standard could be abandoned . |
| 12 | Behaviour on the terraces was also thought to be deteriorating in the 1930s and crowd incidents — involving pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and occasional confrontations between spectators and the police — were exciting the same interest . |
| 13 | The skeleton was originally thought to be female and was called the ‘ Red Lady of Paviland ’ because the bones had been dyed with the red ochre of a ritual burial . |
| 14 | This separating layer is undoubtedly mainly a protein and was originally thought to be similar to keratin which is the protein in hair . |
| 15 | This pathway was originally thought to be important only in those tissues lacking ADH , such as the heart , but a recent study has shown in vivo formation of FAEEs in the liver and pancreas during ethanol exposure . |
| 16 | That the signing of Nafta was now thought to be unlikely until after the November 1992 US presidential elections was a serious political setback for Salinas , who had invested considerable political capital in reaching an accord . |
| 17 | Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well . |