Example sentences of "[be] thought [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
| 3 | It may be that depredations had occurred before they got to Strichen ; Boswell , who had visited fifteen years earlier , clearly expected more from the druidical circle , although whether to impress Johnson further , or to avoid being thought an inaccurate provider of anticipations , is difficult to tell , as he does not expand beyond saying , ‘ … |
| 4 | It is thought the only survivor of the five escaped certain death by jumping out of the back of their workers ' van into a garden . |
| 5 | 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 . |