Example sentences of "be thought [that] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had hitherto been thought that the effects of such emissions would be more localized . |
| 2 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 3 | For instance , it has often been thought that the progress of a military campaign , such as the invasions of the Germanic peoples into the northern Roman empire of the third and fourth centuries , could be plotted from the locations of hoards , or that areas with large numbers of hoards must have been relatively rich compared with other areas . |
| 4 | It might have been thought that the arrival of so many neutral countries would render any Common Security policy impossible , but the Community institutions are alert to this ‘ danger ’ , and have stated that they will be rigorous in their application of the acquis to new members . |
| 5 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 6 | The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it . |
| 7 | It might be thought that the crime of incest which covers parties who consent in the legal sense should not extend further than serious acts of penetration . |
| 8 | It might be thought that the ideal of protected expectation is a distinctly democratic ideal , because it proposes that coercion be used only when authorized by procedures to which the people have consented . |
| 9 | Lest it be thought that the form of cultural essentialism being challenged here appears only in lay public debate , consider this astonishing but revealing passage from Professor John Rex , a leading figure in British ‘ race relations ’ research . |
| 10 | These cause more of a problem as it is thought that a scheme of arrangement under CA 1985 , s425 can not bind a member who did not have an opportunity to be present or represented at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 11 | It is thought that a sum of about £5,000 will be needed to carry the scheme through successfully and that a membership of 300 would be needed to maintain it on a sound basis . |
| 12 | It is thought that a team of six , either Q.T 's or experienced class members who can answer questions on our work , would be able to man the static displays without the task being too onerous . |
| 13 | This subsection does not , of course , affect any liability for negligence which the defendant may incur qua occupier of the premises or keeper of the animal , but it is thought that the keeping of guard dogs is consistent with the occupier 's duty to trespassers , provided at least some warning of their presence is given . |
| 14 | It is thought that the separation of children from poor parents , the keeping of children apart from parents and the removal of parental rights are undertaken too readily by these agencies . |
| 15 | Since the difference between levels of receptors in women becomes apparent 3–4 days after the onset of depression , it is thought that the effects of falling sex hormones are mediated via the megakaryocyte , a huge bone-marrow cell which is the precursor of platelets , |
| 16 | Like the established economic torts , this is a tort of intention and it is thought that the conduct of the defendant must have the plaintiff as its target though it need not be the predominant purpose in the sense that the defendant needs to be activated by malevolence : the pursuit of self-interest by unlawful means is actionable . |
| 17 | ‘ In the Empire it is thought that the history of mankind goes back about five million years . ’ |
| 18 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 19 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 20 | If it is thought that the growers of any kind of grain in any part of the world have been losing money , and are likely to sow a smaller area for a future harvest ; it is argued that prices are likely to rise as soon as that harvest comes into sight , and its shortness is manifest to all . |
| 21 | It is thought that the Christians of the early Church valued such phrases which had been spoken by Jesus and used them in their original Aramaic form . |
| 22 | For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion . |
| 23 | It would be a sad day if it was thought that a change of mind on the part of a local authority in any question relating to children was an admission of past error . |
| 24 | In the past it was thought that the chance of having a glider struck by lightning in cloud was negligible . |
| 25 | Until then , it was thought that the date of creation was fairly recent and was certainly not earlier than 5,000 BC . |
| 26 | It was thought that the position of these encourages motorists to cut the corner when coming over the bridge thus causing a hazard to vehicles and pedestrians coming the other way . |
| 27 | It was thought that the kind of strong reliance on grammatical structuring used in HARPY was necessary to compensate for the generally poor level of acoustic-phonetic processing achieved during the DARPA project ( see Klatt 1977 ) . |
| 28 | It was thought that the god of fertility had died and only their tears could bring him back . |
| 29 | When originally introduced it was thought that the availability of a detergent with inherent bactericidal characteristics would solve many of the problems associated with both cleaning and disinfection . |
| 30 | At first it was thought that the nucleus of the atom was made up of electrons and different numbers of a positively charged particle called the proton , from the Greek word meaning " first , " because it was believed to be the fundamental unit from which matter was made . |