Example sentences of "it was [adv] think that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 2 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 3 | It was also thought that jobbers would stabilise prices through their short-term speculative activities . |
| 4 | It was also thought that NSF coalition proposals might have been connected to rifts within its own movement between conservatives and reformers . |
| 5 | It was previously thought that severance , where no shares are agreed , operated to create a tenancy in common in equal shares ( see Megarry and Wade , Real Property 5th edn , Stevens , 1984 , p430 and R v Porter [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 1260 where the Court of Appeal held that in a joint venture , in the absence of any evidence , the Court was entitled to assume equal sharing ) . |
| 6 | It was widely thought that discussions over his release had been the main obstacle in the talks between Meyer and Ramaphosa . |
| 7 | It was once thought that tool users might have a more complex and sophisticated nervous system than other animals , and that by studying them we might find out something of significance about the human race itself . |