Example sentences of "were thought [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In most instances the contexts were thought to be appropriate to pupils in schools in different locations .
2 Feelings were thought to be strong , on either side , about the sentence that was now to be carried out .
3 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 .
4 The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery .
5 Given that membership of the school was universally perceived as a privilege , social and disciplinary problems were minimal and few special arrangements for pastoral care or counselling were thought to be necessary .
6 Without a demand for services , no services were thought to be necessary .
7 If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself .
8 Large integrated securities houses were thought to be necessary as an average size broker without a market-maker could feasibly find itself advising on equities , yet the business of transactions could easily be carried out elsewhere .
9 The TUC was not prepared to abandon its sectional interest if measures to secure full employment were thought to be contrary to the interests of the unions .
10 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 .
11 Although the Cabinet was composed of members of the ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea ( PDGE ) , some members were thought to be close to the opposition .
12 Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable .
13 This was an attempt to retain some of the advantages of the gold standard , since stable rates of exchange were thought to be beneficial to the conduct of trade and other international transactions , and yet adjustments in the exchange rate were deemed desirable for a country facing a permanent payments imbalance .
14 They were thought to be suitable for working on any part of the system .
15 The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness .
16 Those envisaged under the previous Asylum Bill were thought to be inoperable .
17 Some patients had voiced initial apprehension about their continuing to receive medication , but most were thought to be neutral about fundholding .
18 Of these , 371,000 were thought to be Protestant , 271,000 Catholic and 5,000 Jews .
19 Modern farming methods , particularly in arable crop fields , were thought to be responsible for the declines .
20 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 .
21 In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain .
22 For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet .
23 Although corporacy and good relations were thought to be important , both sides acknowledged that conflicts of interest were bound to happen which had to be worked through by negotiation and bargaining .
24 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 .
25 Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores .
26 Overall , though the various criminal justice agencies were seen as differentially culpable with regard to racial discrimination , racially prejudiced attitudes were thought to be widespread .
27 Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day .
28 Many sections of the army leadership were thought to be hostile towards Aristide , however , because , in response to United States pressure , he had begun to act to stop drug trafficking from which they were known to benefit .
29 Interpretations were not offered by these priests — rather , the dreams themselves were thought to be curative .
30 ( Because they were thought to be able to change their form at will , the accused were branded ‘ shape shifters ’ ) .
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