Example sentences of "be thought [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 2 | Devastating though it is in its presentation of the destructive power of guilt , Macbeth may be thought a comforting play , finally , in that hypocrisy exposes itself . |
| 3 | And yet Stewart 's small wandering world could well be thought the richer of the two environments . |
| 4 | There is no distinct technology of advertising , but this could be thought an arbitrary objection , especially when the boundaries between media technologies that were quite sharp in the 1940s — between print and photography , or film and TV , for example — were dissolving in the 1980s . |
| 5 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |