Example sentences of "thought at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CNAA , he had thought at the outset , was something that ‘ ought to happen ’ . |
| 2 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 3 | It was thought at the time that the talks would result in some extension of the deadline . |
| 4 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 5 | However , the system of floating exchange rates was thought at the time to be a temporary feature of the international monetary system : it was hoped that a new framework would be found for a return to some kind of adjustable peg in which the burden of adjustment was clearly defined , both for deficit and surplus countries , and in which reserve assets were not based primarily on one currency . |
| 6 | If that is what it turned out to be , it is certainly not what those most concerned to secure or prevent the passage of the Bill thought at the time . |
| 7 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 8 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 9 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 10 | The argument , however , forced the English to justify their national identity , and the arguments employed give some idea of how men thought at the time . |
| 11 | Faulty concrete containers , thought at the time to be the source of pollution , were removed in 1973 and the site was declared decontaminated in 1979 . |
| 12 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |