Example sentences of "thought be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the campaign we asked what people thought were the main issues being stressed by each of the parties . |
| 2 | In an album deal at IRS , we would make the band an offer based on the percentage royalty points which we thought were appropriate , having worked out a budget to make a record . |
| 3 | I turned up dressed in what I thought were my best clothes — a corduroy suit from Take Six with Oxford bags à la Trevor Eve in Shabby Tiger which was on TV at the time Both of which were quite cool things to wear then . |
| 4 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 5 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 6 | He is little known as a teacher , or as a local preacher , but in fact his first choice of occupation upon leaving school , in Holland , was — to use his own words — ‘ School-mastering and the Church ’ , which occupations he thought were the only professions worthy of consideration . |
| 7 | Based on what I thought were proper symptoms , Puls. was given but with only temporary relief , and slight lowering of the blood pressure . |
| 8 | On the sixth day , with the water supply exhausted and no hope of a patrol arriving , they decided to walk to the nearest British lines which they thought were 200 miles to the east . |
| 9 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 10 | He had no qualms about dropping players he thought were off form , but would talk to them individually to encourage them , or if he wanted to make a point arising from their game . |
| 11 | So this year , for New Scientist 's student books issue , we invited nine people to select what they thought were the most interesting books for students published during the past year . |
| 12 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
| 13 | Wordsworth 's painting would have been ‘ a mine of peaceful years , etc. ’ ( lines 21–32 ) ; that is , it would have represented his youthful ideas about life , which he really thought were true , though he now sees that they were deluded ( line 29 ) . |
| 14 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 15 | In the main survey ( Appendix 1 , comments on Table 24 ; and more detailed cross-tabulations not included in Appendix ) , only three per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had had any problems with their credit arrangement , after buying ( nearly half the problems were difficulties over paying , and problems which people thought were the fault of the credit firm were very rare indeed ) . |
| 16 | As he groggily came round he found himself surrounded by three youths he thought were trying to help him . |
| 17 | If you write it yourself it may turn out to be invalid , or there may be legal ambiguities in what you thought were clear requests . |
| 18 | She now turned her smile on Millie , but she received no answering smile , only a stare from what she thought were those very odd grey eyes . |
| 19 | He rubbed polish in little circles onto the shoes that Erlich thought were impressively polished . |
| 20 | This critic concluded his review by pointing out to his readers what he thought were the real merits of the film for he had thought of it as being ‘ neither capitalistic nor laboristic , but a straight-away drama ’ not at all ‘ depending on any propaganda to arouse the spectator 's interest ’ . |
| 21 | As a student of child abuse , I regularly encountered forms of cruelty to children I hardly thought were possible . |
| 22 | The Church 's 2,500 bishops and prelates , heads of men 's religious orders ( though not of women 's ! ) , and faculties of some thirty-seven Catholic universities were asked what they thought were the major problems facing the Church . |
| 23 | There were others whom I liked , that I thought were particularly honest and whose opinions I respected . |
| 24 | As he compared the ‘ full rich life ’ of the old back-street cultures which he thought were being pitted and undermined by the ‘ canned entertainment and packeted provision ’ of the new pulp culture , Hoggart made no effort to disguise his contempt for this barren cultural wasteland — the pop songs , the crooners and the heart-throbs , the hairstyles and clothing , the espresso bars and milk bars which young people frequented , together with the ‘ sex in shiny packets ’ literature and the cacophony of juke-boxes and ‘ nickelodeons ’ . |
| 25 | He consulted a few people whom he thought were good tests of opinion . |
| 26 | As the deputy head commented rather ruefully : I 'm not sure what I thought were study skills was what they thought were study skills . |
| 27 | As the deputy head commented rather ruefully : I 'm not sure what I thought were study skills was what they thought were study skills . |
| 28 | This final point was illustrated in an experiment ( Gordon , 1983 ) in which two classes of children aged 12 were asked to identify what they thought were the difficult parts of passages from a history textbook . |
| 29 | That was the true black humour of colleagues I thought were my mates . |
| 30 | ‘ I am surrounded by selfish bastards I thought were my friends , ’ I say , slapping my forehead with the hand holding the J and almost setting my hair alight . |