Example sentences of "thought a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 2 | It is all guesswork , but we can not help thinking about it , and I have thought a great deal about it . |
| 3 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 4 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 5 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have thought a whacking great palace more to your taste ! ’ |
| 7 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 8 | Typically they now run multinational operations , or parts of them , and spend a great deal more time in the air or in foreign hotels than their predecessors would ever have thought a necessary part of the publishing process . |
| 9 | This is thought a better explanation both because it avoids the metaphysical extravagance of non-natural properties , and because it clarifies the relation between moral judgement and action . |
| 10 | But now Cleese breaks his silence to talk about fame , fortune and ‘ the fear of not being thought a nice chap ’ and in the process makes a remarkable offer to the press |
| 11 | ‘ The crippling thing is the fear of not being thought a nice chap . |
| 12 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 13 | On 21 March , he wrote that he had ‘ thought a good deal ’ about the book — which , bearing in mind the Spanish use the word ‘ servile ’ in contrast to ‘ liberal ’ , I had called Liberal and Servile Society — but that his Board had agreed that in its present form , which was in any case fragmentary , it was insufficiently co-ordinated . |
| 14 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 15 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 16 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 17 | I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’ |
| 18 | Devastating though it is in its presentation of the destructive power of guilt , Macbeth may be thought a comforting play , finally , in that hypocrisy exposes itself . |
| 19 | At the end of the month New Scientist was taking a sober view of the clinical value of interferon , once thought a possible panacea against viruses . |
| 20 | But when Cecilia was married in 1940 and first went to live there it was thought a poor sort of house , semi-detached , shabby and in a dowdy district . |
| 21 | You would n't have thought a small-circulation satirical magazine could excite such ignorant indignation . |
| 22 | More important , lest this be thought a linguistic quibble , without them a system of government lacks the legitimacy a constitution gives and a political system the protection it offers . |
| 23 | The jubilant Knox wrote about her death in terms which make it clear why charity has not been thought a notable feature of Scottish Calvinism . |
| 24 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 25 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 26 | It was thought a generous declaration — but not in the light of Wales 's batting in their first innings . |
| 27 | Unlike the popular Greek deity ARES , Mars was thought a noble god . |
| 28 | Universal indexing of personal allowances is thought a likely casualty , with a freeze on most taxpayers ' allowances , offering the Treasury a £1 billion saving . |