Example sentences of "was thought [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1830 , however , membership had more than halved and it was thought prudent to change the rules to limit its functions more closely to those of a conventional benefit society , thereby earning the support of some local shipowners and a personage no less elevated than His Grace the Duke of Northumberland . |
| 2 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
| 3 | In the increasingly middle-class and English world in which he was moving , the notion of earned money , cash for work , was thought vulgar . |
| 4 | His flesh was thought inviolable , but Balder was killed by the blind war-god Hoder at the instigation of the eternal trouble-maker LOKI , by a mere sprig of mistletoe . |
| 5 | Oh I used to think ‘ how beautiful ’ if such a thing were possible , but I had no idea that such love was thought vile . |
| 6 | As these units were set up , they would replace the functions of the large hospitals , which would be required only for the care of the old long-stay patients , a cohort admitted before the outdoor mode of treatment was to become common and schizophrenia was thought uncontrollable in the community . |
| 7 | It is all the more remarkable then that at the end of the century it was thought feasible and worthwhile to improve the system by the creation of the inclined plane , that other source of interest and wonder at Foxton . |
| 8 | Brothel-going was thought preferable to the guilt and fear induced by self-abuse . |
| 9 | It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In family 5 the mother 's brother had previously been confirmed by muscle biopsy and so a biopsy on the infant was thought unnecessary . |
| 12 | ‘ Had you been present , Buzz , there was nothing you could have done , so it was thought best not to disrupt your holiday , ’ Adam explained . |
| 13 | Thus , it was thought best that the development of the linguistic framework should parallel the development of the workshop activity . |
| 14 | It was thought appropriate to use — if possible — previously devised and validated scales . |
| 15 | The breadth of the catch-all provision was , I imagine , the reason why it was thought appropriate to make the power exercisable ‘ where … it may be deemed just to rectify the register . ’ |
| 16 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 17 | Donors delivered a bit less than two-thirds of what was thought necessary after Ethiopia 's 1989 crop failure . |
| 18 | He would run the United States like a business , with little regard for the Constitution if it interfered with his plans , declare martial law to combat the drug problem , eliminate Social Security or the entire defence budget if it was thought necessary to meet the government 's deficit , and remove the power of Congress to raise taxes . |
| 19 | Still , it was thought necessary to present Leapor as one of the deserving poor , and to deny any rebelliousness in her character . |
| 20 | This procedure was followed when a minor inheriting property claimed to have become of age , or when it was thought necessary to determine legally that someone had attained the age when he or she was allowed to marry . |
| 21 | On the basis of the school reports , each youth was graded A , B or C , depending on how much after-care was thought necessary . |
| 22 | In contrast with the previous case , where it was thought necessary to stop medication at the beginning of treatment , this woman clearly benefited from the introduction of a hypnotic for a brief period of time . |
| 23 | It was thought necessary to have such authoritarian power and to combine legislative and executive functions in one person to implement economic reforms — the shift from a planned to a market economy — as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | The failure to gain the consent of opposition parties and the improvement in the situation led to the dropping of the second proposal in 1934 and the Cabinet then decided that the matter should be put on ice unless the position deteriorated and immediate legislation was thought necessary . |
| 25 | In particular , group means need to be used rather more circumspectly than was thought necessary in the early studies . |
| 26 | In some examples it was thought necessary to highlight important distinguishing features with arrows or emphatic shading . |
| 27 | Although they differed markedly in the kinds of data it was thought necessary to collect , they held to a similar conception of the relationship between theory and data . |
| 28 | It provided a genuine incentive for the worker to intensify his labour and thus raise his productivity , a guarantee against slacking , an automatic device for reducing the wage-bill in times of depression , as well as a convenient method — by the cutting of piece-rates — to reduce labour costs and to prevent wages from rising higher than was thought necessary or proper . |
| 29 | I 'm not suggesting for a moment it does n't cross my mind nor has Mr suggested that there has been any er deliberate failures to disclose something which was thought was , which you 've got and was thought relevant , but it , things do turn out to be potentially relevant in the course of the court appearance |
| 30 | The introduction of an animal disease into a human body was thought disgusting and some even ‘ feared their metamorphosis into horned beasts ’ . |