Example sentences of "[was/were] think to [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Danzig Poles were thought to be docile and largely invisible , it is clear that their slumbering sense of identity had been roused by anti-Polish policies . |
| 2 | Painful bowel movements were thought to be present if the child complained of pain during defecation or when the child exhibited screaming or crying in anticipation of , or during , defecation , if the parent reported blood on the stool or if the child had an anal fissure present at the time of examination . |
| 3 | Towns , which have been more intensively studied and for which there is generally more documentary and cartographic information , were thought to be organic or haphazard creations until recently . |
| 4 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 5 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 6 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 7 | In 1951 a well-documented eruption of this kind took place on Mt Lamington in Papua , another of those volcanoes which was thought to be extinct until something nasty happened . |
| 8 | Stool withholding was thought to be present if the child exhibited a certain behaviour at the time of defecation , often termed ‘ the duty dance ’ . |
| 9 | A loop was thought to be possible and there were those who claimed to have seen one . |
| 10 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Reza Khan was thought to be pro-British and the British Minister in Teheran simply told the Qajar Shah that the must co-operate ; so he did , Ironside , who had by now left the country , noted in his diary , " I fancy that all the people think I engineered the coup d'etate . |
| 13 | This committee was set up to review the Youth Service , which was thought to be demoralised and unprepared to deal with the increasing demand from the ‘ baby boom ’ children who were reaching adolescence . |
| 14 | It was thought to be important that Parliamentary and public opinion — and concern — should be reassured by having a comprehensive review carried out by such a body . |
| 15 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |