Example sentences of "thought that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must never be thought that a convicted criminal can buy his way out of imprisonment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 4 | It is thought that a sum of about £5,000 will be needed to carry the scheme through successfully and that a membership of 300 would be needed to maintain it on a sound basis . |
| 5 | It was long thought that a mere redistribution of duties without any reduction in the total number of employees required or the total amount of work to be done did not amount to redundancy . |
| 6 | For example , it may be thought that a computer programmer will extract some kind of revenge by introducing a logic bomb into the computer system . |
| 7 | It might be thought that a larger population would create a larger labour force and market , thereby increasing the level of economic welfare in LDCs ; however , it is essential for other resources ( land , capital and enterprise ) to be available also to generate income and wealth through productive enterprise . |
| 8 | On death-beds it may be thought that a soon-to-be-deceased settlor is susceptible to giving either involuntary nods or nods to propositions imperfectly understood , or both . |
| 9 | I would have thought that a large company like Fender could supply this information with their products as a matter of course , together with technical specifications and notes on the safe usage of this product — after all , I seem to recall several musicians being electrocuted when playing their electric guitars . |
| 10 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Titford must have thought that a London in which mobs could go on a looting spree in the City was no place to raise her young daughter . |
| 12 | It used to be thought that a species was either monogamous or polygamous and that , in this respect at least , its behaviour was fixed . |
| 13 | Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ? |
| 14 | I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces . |
| 15 | It is widely thought that a turnover tax may range from between 15% and 20% . |
| 16 | If it was thought that a consensus could not be reached , then the Nordic solution was very simple : the matter was not raised . |
| 17 | It used to be thought that a binary resulted from the fission or breaking-up of a formerly single star which was spinning rapidly , and became unstable . |
| 18 | It may be thought that a body like the National Trust with a well-defined statutory purpose to preserve places of natural beauty or historic interest in perpetuity for the benefit of the nation , is not affected by changing public opinion or fears for the global environment . |
| 19 | One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth . |
| 20 | But then you come and tell us well they 're a charitable trust I would of thought that a charitable trust would of been very er , happy to have seen the some rented accommodation ? |
| 21 | It 's thought that a lot of the spending money for these would have come from redundancy payments when people lost their jobs . |
| 22 | However , it should not be thought that a methodology can be devised to raise ali implicit themes to the level of explicitness , or that only the explicit aspects have attitudinal reality . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At first sight , it might be thought that a manufacturer would be keen on retailing being as competitive as possible . |
| 27 | I was n't deceived , for Nour had been kind when I had been what he called ‘ good ’ , and I had thought that a new Nour had been born who was made for me , designed for all my needs and desires , and we would be unchangingly happy together until the end of time . |
| 28 | Recruitment to any organisation must be an ongoing process , however it was thought that a concerted effort should be made by CPRW in 1992 to significantly increase membership . |
| 29 | Recruitment to any organisation must be an ongoing process , however it was thought that a concerted effort should be made by CPRW in 1992 to significantly increase membership . |
| 30 | It was thought that a similar equation would govern the proton , which was the only other particle known at the time , and that would be the end of theoretical physics . |