Example sentences of "be thought that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must never be thought that a convicted criminal can buy his way out of imprisonment . |
| 2 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 3 | For example , it may be thought that a computer programmer will extract some kind of revenge by introducing a logic bomb into the computer system . |
| 4 | It might be thought that a larger population would create a larger labour force and market , thereby increasing the level of economic welfare in LDCs ; however , it is essential for other resources ( land , capital and enterprise ) to be available also to generate income and wealth through productive enterprise . |
| 5 | On death-beds it may be thought that a soon-to-be-deceased settlor is susceptible to giving either involuntary nods or nods to propositions imperfectly understood , or both . |
| 6 | It used to be thought that a species was either monogamous or polygamous and that , in this respect at least , its behaviour was fixed . |
| 7 | It used to be thought that a binary resulted from the fission or breaking-up of a formerly single star which was spinning rapidly , and became unstable . |
| 8 | It may be thought that a body like the National Trust with a well-defined statutory purpose to preserve places of natural beauty or historic interest in perpetuity for the benefit of the nation , is not affected by changing public opinion or fears for the global environment . |
| 9 | However , it should not be thought that a methodology can be devised to raise ali implicit themes to the level of explicitness , or that only the explicit aspects have attitudinal reality . |
| 10 | At first sight , it might be thought that a manufacturer would be keen on retailing being as competitive as possible . |
| 11 | It might be thought that a programme which proposes to cut the federal workforce by 100,000 over the next four years had scant claim to be a drive for jobs . |
| 12 | Meanwhile it should not be thought that no one is doing research into the uses of the printed book . |
| 13 | With such a huge range of reproductive activity stimulated by the sun , it might be thought that no other trigger was needed . |
| 14 | And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else . |
| 15 | It might be thought that the subject 's apprehension of his own brain is more immediate and more holistic than any external knowledge , however complete , and that this explains the experiential difference between the two kinds of knowledge . |
| 16 | It might be thought that the actor 's art also reflects the continual struggle between participants in a social situation to share their private worlds through public media of language and gesture , what Arthur Brittan ( 1973 ) refers to as ‘ negotiation of meaning ’ . |
| 17 | It may be thought that the same verdict applies to the third principle as well . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 20 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 21 | It used to be thought that the correct technique was to add positive pitch at just the right moment to give a survivable — if not gentle-landing . |
| 22 | It may be thought that the direction on burden is implicit in that on standard . |
| 23 | It might be thought that the present generation of ‘ younger ’ retired women have , by virtue of improved access to occupational pension benefits , greatly reduced their risk of poverty in old age , which for women officially begins five years earlier than men at the ‘ pensionable age ’ of 60 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Thus , it may be thought that the term rape conveys the full horror of the event . |
| 26 | It might be thought that the hon. Gentleman 's independence of mind and spirit owe something to his background . |
| 27 | As for the beef regime — a second area that we have not yet discussed — there is another reason why it might be thought that the hon. Gentleman was a little premature in suggesting that we had already agreed these matters . |
| 28 | It may be thought that the highest-scoring universities in this list attract a higher than average proportion of indigenous students with local area research interests , but examination of the names of thesis authors from Strathclyde and Dundee universities , and confirmatory personal communications with the relevant departments , suggest that many of their students are not of local origin , but have come to the universities from overseas . |
| 29 | It might be thought that the concept is a new one . |
| 30 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |