Sentence examples for were sometimes thought from inspiring English sources
The area's residents, known as pineys, were sometimes thought to be, Mr. McPhee writes, "weird and sometimes dangerous barefoot people who live in caves, marry their sisters and eat snakes".
But both the new police chief and Hans Haekkerup, the Dane who has just started running Kosovo for the UN, will have to convince the world (including the criminals) that they will not condone crime as their predecessors were sometimes thought to do when the criminals have political friends.
The field of optics has its origins in the Ancient Greek period, when figures like Euclid and Ptolemy wrote works on the subject, but they often focused primarily on the science of vision, analyzing (e.g). the visual rays that were sometimes thought to extrude from the eye, enabling it to perceive distant physical objects.
They were sometimes thought to have a prophetic gift.
The birds were sometimes thought to be the souls of perished sailors, and killing a petrel was believed to bring bad luck.
The eyes and heart, for instance, were sometimes thought to hold particular significance because of the perceived centrality of these parts of the body to an individual's sense of self.
Not my son Ed as is sometimes thought.
The Demiurge is sometimes thought of as the Platonic personification of active reason.
For this reason, alcohol is sometimes thought of, erroneously, as a stimulant.
"SA" is sometimes thought to be Selim Ahmed, Lawrence's assistant and rumoured lover.
The alternation of consonants known as consonant gradation (or lenition) is sometimes thought to be of Uralic origin.
