Example sentences of "be thought that [adj] " 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 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 6 | In fact , it could easily be thought that increased alcohol consumption could result just in the increased incidence of recurrent pancreatitis . |
| 7 | It should not be thought that Labour Ministers were concerned only with domestic policy , although Morrison was Home Secretary , Bevin was Minister of Labour , and Dalton ( from early 1942 ) President of the Board of Trade . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it must not be thought that papal conciliar decrees which seem so clear-cut to the modern scholar , who sees them in all the clarity of the printed page , had a similar force and clarity for contemporaries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Neither should it be thought that informal methods necessarily lead to untidy work presented in a poor hand . |
| 18 | It might also be thought that seasonal workers would be distinguished from their regular counterparts by special contracts of employment . |
| 19 | It might be thought that Marxist accounts can offer a ready and all-encompassing account which explains away the weaknesses on pluralist and elitist accounts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It might be thought that this was essentially a matter for the internal law of State A , the forum State . |
| 27 | But it must not be thought that this domination is exercised only through the repression of dissent by police , though this certainly is important . |
| 28 | However , I would net wish it to be thought that this was necessarily a unique example . |
| 29 | It might perhaps be thought that this would always be classified as a matter for unanimity . |
| 30 | 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 . |