Example sentences of "thought [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as if to make amends for the rapacity of his Victorian forebears and their employers , he re-discovered species — notably the holly fern — long thought extinct in Snowdonia . |
| 2 | The senior American , and the New Zealander , were right-wingers of a purity I 'd thought extinct , little imagining that the vogue for radical chic — which had been the orthodoxy of the day in Toronto — was now no more than the memory of an ebb tide . |
| 3 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 4 | In family 5 the mother 's brother had previously been confirmed by muscle biopsy and so a biopsy on the infant was thought unnecessary . |
| 5 | ‘ It 'll be thought strange . |
| 6 | He informs Fleming that he had had to put them to work elsewhere and hopes that it will not be thought strange that the men are taken away . |
| 7 | She wondered , however , whether the philosophy of matching services closely to needs might eventually mean that existing residents who were relatively independent might be thought unsuitable for Mencap 's homes . |
| 8 | That concession may not be now as fatal as the judge thought due to the extension of the meaning of the phrase " trade secret " found in the Court of Appeal judgments in Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr . |
| 9 | Some roads have been lost , whilst others have been created or moved , and features previously thought stable , like village greens , can be shown to be recent additions to some plans . |
| 10 | Their instinct is to try to hide this for fear of being thought weak or inadequate , and this , in part , contributes to the fact that although their overall experience of the distress of bereavement may be slightly less than that of widows , many men take longer to recover fully . |
| 11 | It may , for example , be necessary to undertake more home visiting than is thought usual , at least until the time when the bereaved person feels more able to go out and face the world again . |
| 12 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 13 | In retrospect the pace of international expansion may seem extravagant , especially since the franchising route which has eased the financial pain of UK expansion was not thought practicable abroad . |
| 14 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |
| 15 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 16 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 17 | In transport , then , Margaret Thatcher 's first Government extended privatization far beyond what we had thought possible in Opposition , but there was no doubt what was the jewel in the crown . |
| 18 | This in turn enables Janssen 's customers to start production or synthesis sooner than they might have thought possible . |
| 19 | Improved rehabilitation techniques , for example , mean that many elderly stroke patients can now achieve greater functional improvement than was previously thought possible . |
| 20 | He had enjoyed the picnic much more than he had thought possible . |
| 21 | Demaine thinks that LOGO holds the promise of giving children access to advanced concepts at a far earlier stage than Piaget would have thought possible . |
| 22 | In a rage of despair , Nicholas flung open the doors to the street and he was there , running towards him , and the clamour he had heard was real , and louder than he would have thought possible . |
| 23 | During her years in Helmsley , she had missed life on the farm more than she would ever have thought possible . |
| 24 | Just as you have stretched your body beyond what you had previously thought possible , so you can stretch your mind . |
| 25 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 26 | The humble footbed has seen more changes than anyone would have thought possible in 1981 , when it was first used in the K-SB3s . |
| 27 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |
| 28 | It is thought possible that , when the Universe came into existence , there was by chance a little more matter than antimatter ; most of the matter destroyed itself by interaction with the antimatter , but that still left some over — the matter which makes up the Universe around us . |
| 29 | He was more ill at ease than Constance would have thought possible . |
| 30 | It is clear that , despite the clamour for his resignation , Mr Lamont is hoping to stay at the Treasury for longer than most pundits would have thought possible last year . |