Example sentences of "it was think [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thought that the kind of strong reliance on grammatical structuring used in HARPY was necessary to compensate for the generally poor level of acoustic-phonetic processing achieved during the DARPA project ( see Klatt 1977 ) . |
| 2 | It was thought that the position of these encourages motorists to cut the corner when coming over the bridge thus causing a hazard to vehicles and pedestrians coming the other way . |
| 3 | It was thought that the god of fertility had died and only their tears could bring him back . |
| 4 | When originally introduced it was thought that the availability of a detergent with inherent bactericidal characteristics would solve many of the problems associated with both cleaning and disinfection . |
| 5 | Until then , it was thought that the date of creation was fairly recent and was certainly not earlier than 5,000 BC . |
| 6 | At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate . |
| 7 | In the past it was thought that the chance of having a glider struck by lightning in cloud was negligible . |
| 8 | For many years it was thought that the wreck was a Spitfire , but after delving through archives at the RAF Museum along with information gleaned from various specialist publications , it was discovered that the aircraft was a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk flown by a Canadian pilot , Harold Fraser-English of 400 Squadron , operating out of Weston Zoyland . |
| 9 | At the time when the 1974 Act was passed it was thought that the issue on an application for an interlocutory injunction was whether the plaintiff had established a prima facie case , but in American Cyanamid Ltd . |
| 10 | At one time it was thought that the section only applied to express agreements and not to an implied agreement . |
| 11 | And it was thought that the movement in England and Wales in the late 1960s , towards the extension of teachers ' centres was an attempt to create what was described as a focus for teacher renewal . |
| 12 | Secondly , it was thought that the appointment of a partner with specific duties in relation to the firms ' accounts could easily encourage an abdication of responsibility on the part of the other partners . |
| 13 | The aminosalicylate reduced the fever , but as salicylates are known to do this it was thought that the effect might be non-specific . |
| 14 | It was thought that the purchaser automatically took on board liability for all of the employees ' rights except those in respect of pension schemes , save in the case of contractual rights to receive payments into personal schemes which would be unaffected . |
| 15 | But at the time it was thought that the record had yielded up its secrets in sufficient quantities to allow confident assertions to be made about the character of the evolutionary mechanism . |
| 16 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 17 | At first it was thought that the nucleus of the atom was made up of electrons and different numbers of a positively charged particle called the proton , from the Greek word meaning " first , " because it was believed to be the fundamental unit from which matter was made . |
| 18 | When autotomy was first observed it was thought that the killer simply ripped off the tail by brute force , but closer study revealed that many lizards , especially geckos , have evolved special break-points in their tails — weak spots that fracture with great ease and make the sacrifice a simple matter . |
| 19 | The fog was too thick for any of the heavies to attempt takeoff , but it was thought that the lighter , smaller and more manoeuvrable Mosquitoes might just make it . |
| 20 | For it was thought that the generalist could , whenever he wanted to , add a specialist dimension to his knowledge , but general concepts were less easy to derive from the specialist . |