Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] thought [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most farm animals , however , still endure conditions devised in days when they were merely thought of as meat machines . |
| 2 | Most were unhappy — to the outside world they were just thought of as ‘ cabbages ’ , without thoughts or feelings , because that was how the people looking after them thought they were . |
| 3 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 4 | In string theories , what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string , like waves on a vibrating kite string . |
| 5 | It was highly thought of by Stephen Hales [ q.v. ] , |
| 6 | Muni was obviously thought of as a major selling point and the public were urged to see this latest offering of the man who ‘ appears in fewer films than any of the big stars ’ . |
| 7 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 8 | Admittedly , imprinting was usually thought of as the process by which animals normally learn about the characteristics of their species , even though a reference was occasionally made to ‘ asexual imprinting ’ ( Aberle et al . , |
| 9 | Every ‘ Toshie ’ watcher , and there are many devotees of the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Hill Street to Hiroshima , knows that Glasgow was once thought of as the very acme of a Tokyo for tea-rooms . |
| 10 | ‘ I take thee … to have and to hold … ’ was once thought of as the beginning of a romantic and loving vow , which women could hardly wait to take . |
| 11 | Funny how her life was always thought of as pre-Fernando days . |
| 12 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 13 | Theudebert was certainly thought of as a great and powerful king . |