Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] thought [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 2 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
| 3 | Books that were thought appropriate included Aesop 's Fables , Cato and Virgil and the Ten Commandments in Latin . |
| 4 | What was needed was the kind of laws and regulations , and tax structure , that would make the market society work , or allow it to work , and the kind of state services — defence , and even military expansion , education , sanitation , and various sorts of assistance to industry , such as tariffs and grants for railway development that were thought necessary to make the system run efficiently and profitably . |
| 5 | ‘ Levels that were thought safe ten years ago are now considered highly dangerous . |
| 6 | The funding , was a matter of assessing priorities , and each time , when that assessment came , the police were prioritised as to receive the funding that was thought correct to undertake the duties that they do in this county . |
| 7 | In particular , group means need to be used rather more circumspectly than was thought necessary in the early studies . |
| 8 | It provided a genuine incentive for the worker to intensify his labour and thus raise his productivity , a guarantee against slacking , an automatic device for reducing the wage-bill in times of depression , as well as a convenient method — by the cutting of piece-rates — to reduce labour costs and to prevent wages from rising higher than was thought necessary or proper . |
| 9 | I 'm not suggesting for a moment it does n't cross my mind nor has Mr suggested that there has been any er deliberate failures to disclose something which was thought was , which you 've got and was thought relevant , but it , things do turn out to be potentially relevant in the course of the court appearance |
| 10 | Bush , who had repeatedly stated his opposition to abortion under all but the most extreme circumstances , was known to oppose the bill , and was thought likely to veto it in the event of its enactment . |
| 11 | Before July 1990 authorized unit trusts , pension funds , and investment trusts were exempt from capital gains tax on futures transactions for investment purposes , but were thought liable to pay tax on any trading income ( Redhead , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | It was to meet as often as was thought desirable . |