Example sentences of "[be] thought that [det] " in BNC.

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1 It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman .
2 I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical .
3 Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby .
4 Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps .
5 It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place .
6 It might be thought that such policies spring from a desire , on the one hand , to ensure the free flowering of individual enterprise , and on the other , to guard against the tyrannies of " big business " .
7 The baton is , however , necessary at the Opéra , where large choruses are frequently sung in the wings … it must not be thought that such a distant group of singers can hear the orchestra , however numerous : each person sings in his neighbour 's ear , and I have sometimes surprised myself by singing off the beat and incorrectly conducting [ conduisant ] the chorus surrounding me .
8 It might be thought that such social constraints would be likely , simply by being social , to be culturally variable , and thus of no great interest to a general ( or universal ) pragmatic theory .
9 It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence .
10 The impracticality of the ‘ inferred recognition ’ theory as a legal concept for forensic use is obvious and it can not be thought that that was the intention of Her Majesty 's Government in giving the Parliamentary answers .
11 This aspect of the decision in Levison is open to question ; the parties had agreed the price and the date for the collection of the carpet , and it might be thought that that would indicate that a binding contract had been made on the telephone .
12 Although it is easy to appreciate that the polymer must be sufficiently wettable to sustain a coherent layer of tear fluid , it might be thought that all problems associated with wettability would be overcome by the presence of water in the material .
13 It might be thought that those seeking detailed information about a particular school should show a special reason for wanting it , but there is no suggestion in any of the Regulations that availability of the information should be limited .
14 It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books .
15 It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public .
16 It used to be thought that this was temporary diabetes resulting from the stress of infarction , but present data suggest that these patients have undiagnosed diabetes before infarction ( Husband et al , 1983 ; Oswald et al , 1984 ) .
17 So far we have considered three ways of sampling directly from a given population , but it may be thought that this direct method has dangers attached .
18 It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened .
19 It might be thought that this was essentially a matter for the internal law of State A , the forum State .
20 But it must not be thought that this domination is exercised only through the repression of dissent by police , though this certainly is important .
21 However , I would net wish it to be thought that this was necessarily a unique example .
22 It might perhaps be thought that this would always be classified as a matter for unanimity .
23 However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence .
24 It must not be thought that these are neglected in the French nuclear programme .
25 ( Lest it be thought that that example does not count because it is seventeenth-century English , it is worth noting that modern translations retain the and at the beginning of that verse . )
26 A search of the area is still going on , but it 's thought that all 99 passengers and fourteen crew were killed .
27 And , if it is thought that such a state of affairs is , for whatever reason , undesirable , then it behoves those who argue for another approach to learn the lesson of political realities .
28 The significance of this observation is still unknown , but it is thought that such larvae may resume development if the adult hookworm population is removed by an anthelmintic or at times of stress such as lactation .
29 After Seymour it is thought that all of these accused would be guilty of reckless manslaughter .
30 It is thought that that will be the result if enough factors are taken into account .
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