Example sentences of "thought [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 3 | It is all guesswork , but we can not help thinking about it , and I have thought a great deal about it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 8 | 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 ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 , ‘ … |
| 14 | 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 . |