Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] is [adv] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 2 | It is a symbolic episode echoing the experience of the primary school ( an experience which is generally thought to have been more successful and with which all units make connections ; most notably in the organization of an ‘ academic ’ morning and an ‘ activities ’ afternoon ) . |
| 3 | In spite of all this , the design process itself is often thought about and executed without any formal considerations about people . |
| 4 | Thorold Mackie , a small companies ' analyst who is highly thought of in the city 's financial circles , has been charged with obtaining and misusing price-sensitive information relating to a profits warning by Glasgow-based Shanks & McEwan . |
| 5 | But then comes a statement about Christ which seems to emanate not from a rational clever man trying to help us to understand things more clearly , but from a rhetorical trickster who is not thinking at all . |
| 6 | For a precedent , see Appendix E. It is not thought that this procedure has been invoked with any degree of frequency . |
| 7 | To a disenchanted eye , Nash seems not quite the genius he is generally thought to have been : he was a notorious jerry-builder who pillaged and cheapened classical motifs as does the builder of the modern executive home . |
| 8 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 9 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 10 | Here was a princess who was catholic , although she belonged to a family which is usually thought of as arian . |