Example sentences of "it was think that [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it was thought that a consensus could not be reached , then the Nordic solution was very simple : the matter was not raised . |
| 4 | It was thought that a person charged under one paragraph may not be convicted under the other : Hollis [ 1971 ] Crim LR 525 ( CA ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The details of the talks were secret but it was thought that a UN discussion paper for reform of the army , a key FMLN demand , was on the agenda . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Originally it was thought that the bombings might be drug-related , but Vance had been involved in a case against the Ku Klux Klan in 1985 and Robinson had recently represented a black plaintiff in a school desegregation case . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was thought that the god of fertility had died and only their tears could bring him back . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Until then , it was thought that the date of creation was fairly recent and was certainly not earlier than 5,000 BC . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the past it was thought that the chance of having a glider struck by lightning in cloud was negligible . |
| 18 | It was thought that the Shropshire Country Council were the owners , but upon them looking through their records , it appears that Major Minton-Beddoes is indeed the owner , but work has once again started . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At one time it was thought that the section only applied to express agreements and not to an implied agreement . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The aminosalicylate reduced the fever , but as salicylates are known to do this it was thought that the effect might be non-specific . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In some of the early work on TL dating of ocean sediments , it was thought that the TL observed was produced by foraminifera or radiolaria and that the zeroing mechanism was the formation of their shells . |
| 30 | 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 . |