Example sentences of "were [adv] think [prep] [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 | Police said two adults and three children were taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital but their injuries were not thought to be serious . |
| 3 | After two days of almost non-stop rain , the first day was washed out completely , since the lakes dotted around the ground were not thought to be conducive to good cricket . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The building blocks of matter are the atoms which were originally thought to be indivisible . |
| 6 | He carried out experiments on the propagation of short and ultra-short radio waves , which were then thought to be unusable . |