Example sentences of "thought that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quote from Hammond & Waterton suggests that in 1890 it was thought that a barrister umpire could preside over a valuation : to restate the proposition in modern terms , a lawyer can act as an expert . |
| 2 | These cause more of a problem as it is thought that a scheme of arrangement under CA 1985 , s425 can not bind a member who did not have an opportunity to be present or represented at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 3 | I have always thought that a promise to perform an existing duty , or the performance of it , should be regarded as good consideration , because it is a benefit to the person to whom it is given . |
| 4 | Until recently , it was thought that a mammal would be unable to use this method to find food because its own body heat would blot out the host 's . |
| 5 | It would be a sad day if it was thought that a change of mind on the part of a local authority in any question relating to children was an admission of past error . |
| 6 | The collection of data from the police files formed an important part of this research , but it was thought that a look at ‘ what went on ’ behind the statistics might help explain any statistical differences that emerged . |
| 7 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 8 | At first sight , it might be thought that a manufacturer would be keen on retailing being as competitive as possible . |
| 9 | If it was thought that a consensus could not be reached , then the Nordic solution was very simple : the matter was not raised . |
| 10 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 11 | It was thought that a person charged under one paragraph may not be convicted under the other : Hollis [ 1971 ] Crim LR 525 ( CA ) . |
| 12 | It 's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs . |
| 13 | For example , it may be thought that a computer programmer will extract some kind of revenge by introducing a logic bomb into the computer system . |
| 14 | It 's thought that a lot of the spending money for these would have come from redundancy payments when people lost their jobs . |
| 15 | I 'm interested , thank you , I 'm interested to notice that this nineteenth century attitude is being repeated now by er , our friends over there in the Labour party , erm and I must say , that really confirm what I 've always thought that a lot of their attitudes and their mental furniture do in fact belong to that century . |
| 16 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 17 | It is widely thought that a turnover tax may range from between 15% and 20% . |
| 18 | It is thought that a team of six , either Q.T 's or experienced class members who can answer questions on our work , would be able to man the static displays without the task being too onerous . |
| 19 | Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ? |
| 20 | It may be thought that a body like the National Trust with a well-defined statutory purpose to preserve places of natural beauty or historic interest in perpetuity for the benefit of the nation , is not affected by changing public opinion or fears for the global environment . |
| 21 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 22 | It is thought that a wound requires an assault : Taylor ( 1869 ) LR 1 CCR 194 , except perhaps in " extraordinary " circumstances : Savage ( CA ) , above , which the Lords approved . |
| 23 | It is thought that a sum of about £5,000 will be needed to carry the scheme through successfully and that a membership of 300 would be needed to maintain it on a sound basis . |
| 24 | It was thought that a questionnaire which asked police officers to tick the answer which came nearest to their attitude toward Catholics , or best reflected their feelings about being targets , would be very unreliable , especially when asked by someone with whom they were unfamiliar . |
| 25 | It used to be thought that a binary resulted from the fission or breaking-up of a formerly single star which was spinning rapidly , and became unstable . |
| 26 | He says he would have thought that a programme which attracts such high viewing and media attention would have sought the appropriate legal advice . |
| 27 | It might be thought that a programme which proposes to cut the federal workforce by 100,000 over the next four years had scant claim to be a drive for jobs . |
| 28 | However , it should not be thought that a methodology can be devised to raise ali implicit themes to the level of explicitness , or that only the explicit aspects have attitudinal reality . |