Example sentences of "it [was/were] thought [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undertaken — if it were thought necessary — by expert psephological statisticians , it would doubtless confirm their extreme unlikelihood . |
| 2 | Modern means of communication , above all television , could easily overcome , if it were thought desirable , the isolation of any particular local assembly . |
| 3 | He would run the United States like a business , with little regard for the Constitution if it interfered with his plans , declare martial law to combat the drug problem , eliminate Social Security or the entire defence budget if it was thought necessary to meet the government 's deficit , and remove the power of Congress to raise taxes . |
| 4 | Still , it was thought necessary to present Leapor as one of the deserving poor , and to deny any rebelliousness in her character . |
| 5 | This procedure was followed when a minor inheriting property claimed to have become of age , or when it was thought necessary to determine legally that someone had attained the age when he or she was allowed to marry . |
| 6 | In contrast with the previous case , where it was thought necessary to stop medication at the beginning of treatment , this woman clearly benefited from the introduction of a hypnotic for a brief period of time . |
| 7 | It was thought necessary to have such authoritarian power and to combine legislative and executive functions in one person to implement economic reforms — the shift from a planned to a market economy — as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | In some examples it was thought necessary to highlight important distinguishing features with arrows or emphatic shading . |
| 9 | Although they differed markedly in the kinds of data it was thought necessary to collect , they held to a similar conception of the relationship between theory and data . |
| 10 | Clearly , this kind of work would not be undertaken unless it was thought possible that causal relationships between variables might exist , just as a medical researcher might hypothesize a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer , or as a historical linguist might hypothesize that a contributory cause of palatalization of [ k ] is an adjacent front vowel . |
| 11 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 12 | It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife . |
| 13 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
| 14 | ‘ Had you been present , Buzz , there was nothing you could have done , so it was thought best not to disrupt your holiday , ’ Adam explained . |
| 15 | Thus , it was thought best that the development of the linguistic framework should parallel the development of the workshop activity . |
| 16 | It is all the more remarkable then that at the end of the century it was thought feasible and worthwhile to improve the system by the creation of the inclined plane , that other source of interest and wonder at Foxton . |
| 17 | It was thought appropriate to use — if possible — previously devised and validated scales . |
| 18 | The breadth of the catch-all provision was , I imagine , the reason why it was thought appropriate to make the power exercisable ‘ where … it may be deemed just to rectify the register . ’ |
| 19 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 20 | By 1830 , however , membership had more than halved and it was thought prudent to change the rules to limit its functions more closely to those of a conventional benefit society , thereby earning the support of some local shipowners and a personage no less elevated than His Grace the Duke of Northumberland . |
| 21 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 22 | Thus , no Roman skipper would move off from a port on 24 August , 5 October , or 8 November , and it was thought bad to be at sea at the end of the month . |
| 23 | A male dancer volunteered for the partnering but it was thought tactful to omit his solo . |
| 24 | It was thought desirable to hedge it about with safeguards that would prevent the representatives from arrogating to themselves the powers and authority that properly belonged to the people . |
| 25 | It was thought fair to avoid placing too frequent a burden on places like Belfast . |
| 26 | He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity . |
| 27 | On Aug. 21 the WEU meeting in Paris was informed that the West German coalition government was to begin talks with the opposition parties on a possible amendment to the constitution to remove this barrier , but it was thought unlikely that any such measure could be enacted before German unification had been completed . |
| 28 | It was thought unlikely that , even if successfully applied , the Florida statute could survive an appeal process . |
| 29 | It was thought likely that some substantial Teesdale farmer might buy all three , ranch the land and sell off the house as a weekend cottage — a regrettably common practice which has been partially responsible for the steady depopulation of the Dales , particularly the more isolated places . |
| 30 | Although he did not elaborate , it was thought likely that this would involve curtailing the sovereign 's already largely ceremonial powers even further , possibly by abolishing the need for the royal assent . |