Example sentences of "thought that a [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , it was thought that a mammal would be unable to use this method to find food because its own body heat would blot out the host 's . |
| 2 | At first sight , it might be thought that a manufacturer would be keen on retailing being as competitive as possible . |
| 3 | If it was thought that a consensus could not be reached , then the Nordic solution was very simple : the matter was not raised . |
| 4 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 5 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 6 | However , it should not be thought that a methodology can be devised to raise ali implicit themes to the level of explicitness , or that only the explicit aspects have attitudinal reality . |