Sentence examples for as sometimes thought from inspiring English sources

The phrase "as sometimes thought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a certain belief or idea is not universally accepted and may be subject to debate or misunderstanding.
Example: "The theory of evolution is more complex than as sometimes thought, involving various mechanisms of change over time."
Alternatives: "as is often believed" or "as is sometimes assumed".

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The resources of the family are not divided on the death of an elder member, as sometimes thought, but, as is customary, are managed to allow regular sums to be paid to relatives.

This attitude is not, as sometimes thought, one of distinguishing differences of degree in our concern for others, according to the closeness of their relation to us.

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But "the public attitude towards genomics is not as negative as is sometimes thought," says Van der Starre, although "of course large differences exist between different fields of genomics: Agricultural use is much more controversial than medical use".

Not my son Ed as is sometimes thought.

The pictures have reassured me that I was not imagining it all, as I sometimes thought I might have done.

But they were not the negation of his dancing and delighted fashion photographs, as critics sometimes thought: the portraits were the solid, mineral form of what was, in the fashion pictures, pure liquid.

Drawing on the original negotiating documents, he shows that this feature of the Constitution was not an act of evasion, as is sometimes thought, but a mark of its drafters' awareness in recognizing the need to permit the groups the time necessary to develop their own methods of working with one another over time.

Liking Ponca City, even loving it, as I sometimes thought I did, was a trap, because I could only relate to Ponca City from a kind of sideways angle, and, if I loved it too much, I might end up never finding the place where I was straightforwardly supposed to be.

Far from being an anti-theoretical position that champions level-headed practicality as is sometimes thought, pragmatist philosophy stresses the dynamic relationship between theory and practice and especially the value of each for transforming the other.

Both songs are performed by Sullivan himself, and not – as is sometimes thought – by Nicholas Lyndhurst.

They never were prostitutes, as is sometimes thought.

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