Example sentences of "[been] thought that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 2 | I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical . |
| 3 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |
| 4 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 5 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |