Example sentences of "it [was/were] think that [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 2 | Although it was thought that receptors mediate the contractile effects of the endothelins whereas , for instance vasodilator effects are mediated by , it is now clear that both receptors can mediate vaso-constriction . |
| 3 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
| 4 | It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature . |
| 5 | Early on , it was thought that plumes came from a chemically unprocessed , or primitive , mantle reservoir . |
| 6 | It was thought that people tapping into the power supply illegally were sending high-voltage ‘ spikes ’ down the line . |
| 7 | In the past , it was thought that language began when the child uttered the first word , but we now know that it begins with the first interactions and communication shortly after birth . |