Example sentences of "were not think [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The remaining two pups were not registered with the AKC , as they were not thought to be of high enough merit . |
| 3 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | The three men , two of whom were subsequently found to have been carrying replica guns , were not thought to be IRA members but had known records of delinquency . |
| 5 | Police said two adults and three children were taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital but their injuries were not thought to be serious . |
| 6 | The Foreign Office has now issued a warning to tourists about terrorist activity in Egypt , and says the reason it was n't given out sooner is because British tourists were n't thought to be at risk . |