Example sentences of "[be] think [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The jubilant Knox wrote about her death in terms which make it clear why charity has not been thought a notable feature of Scottish Calvinism . |
2 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
7 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
8 | It 's got to be the plum — and I am sure Hereford will be thinking the same way too . ’ |
9 | But now Cleese breaks his silence to talk about fame , fortune and ‘ the fear of not being thought a nice chap ’ and in the process makes a remarkable offer to the press |
10 | ‘ The crippling thing is the fear of not being thought a nice chap . |
11 | It may be that depredations had occurred before they got to Strichen ; Boswell , who had visited fifteen years earlier , clearly expected more from the druidical circle , although whether to impress Johnson further , or to avoid being thought an inaccurate provider of anticipations , is difficult to tell , as he does not expand beyond saying , ‘ … |
12 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
13 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
14 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
15 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
16 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
17 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
18 | More important , lest this be thought a linguistic quibble , without them a system of government lacks the legitimacy a constitution gives and a political system the protection it offers . |
19 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
20 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
21 | It 's thought the ritual burial was to ward off evil spirits . |
22 | It 's thought the main school will not reopen until September nineteen ninety three when all repairs have been completed . |
23 | This is thought a better explanation both because it avoids the metaphysical extravagance of non-natural properties , and because it clarifies the relation between moral judgement and action . |
24 | Universal indexing of personal allowances is thought a likely casualty , with a freeze on most taxpayers ' allowances , offering the Treasury a £1 billion saving . |
25 | When the accident happened at around 4:15 yesterday afternoon , it is thought the two men had already passed the most arduous section of what is regarded as only an averagely difficult ice climb route . |
26 | It is thought the only survivor of the five escaped certain death by jumping out of the back of their workers ' van into a garden . |
27 | This is because it is thought the human brain is not preprogrammed to recognize all the senses separately , but learns to correlate them in childhood . |
28 | But when Cecilia was married in 1940 and first went to live there it was thought a poor sort of house , semi-detached , shabby and in a dowdy district . |
29 | Unlike the popular Greek deity ARES , Mars was thought a noble god . |
30 | It was thought a generous declaration — but not in the light of Wales 's batting in their first innings . |