Example sentences of "it [be] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOT for almost five years has it been thought necessary to preview a meeting of the General Committee of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club but today , at 5.30pm at Headingley , the 22 members will gather knowing that once again they wil be under intense scrutiny by the media . |
| 2 | Has it been thought necessary to make any special provision to protect the position of those minorities ? |
| 3 | Neither should it be thought that informal methods necessarily lead to untidy work presented in a poor hand . |
| 4 | On the one hand , you wanted to play down the sleaze factor , not let it be thought that you 'd been involved with hundreds of men , that you slept with just anyone . |
| 5 | ‘ If it were thought that other clubs would try to copy them , their example might , I am afraid , be unfortunate . |
| 6 | Modern means of communication , above all television , could easily overcome , if it were thought desirable , the isolation of any particular local assembly . |
| 7 | Undertaken — if it were thought necessary — by expert psephological statisticians , it would doubtless confirm their extreme unlikelihood . |
| 8 | If it were thought to be worth estimating then a design involving more blocks and partial confounding would have to be used . |
| 9 | It 's thought that immediately after orgasm , a sedative chemical floods through a man 's brain — making him very sleepy , unless he fights against it . |
| 10 | It 's thought , in fact , that they represent areas where ‘ midocean ’ ridges once formed below the continents , in the late stages of continental rifting , but before an ocean proper had opened ( cf. chapter one ) , so in a sense the kind of volcanic activity that is typical of oceanic areas in fact took place on dry land . |
| 11 | It 's thought that the morning , when people are a bit lively , is a good time for therapy-type activities — perhaps have a half-hour reminiscence group over a coffee at 9.30 or 10.00 am . |
| 12 | It 's thought bad manners not to offer a visitor a night of passion after tramping round the icy far north . |
| 13 | It 's thought by many to be the most beautiful of the Cuillin corries and takes the hillwalker in among the most impressive peaks . |
| 14 | It 's thought Sun Microsystems Inc 's long-awaited Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) wholly-owned subsidiary based in Moscow will be formally announced at the beginning of the company 's financial year in August ( UX No 424 ) : headed by Robert Hall , the four-strong team is awaiting phone lines and the refurbishment of offices it has leased in the Russin capital — they 're working out of their own apartments at the moment . |
| 15 | It 's thought to have picked Tuesday May 19th to do that . |
| 16 | It 's thought to be preparing to market an Intel Corp 80486 ( or alike ) -based accelerator board that runs in an Sbus slot which would greatly improve the performance of personal computer applications . |
| 17 | It 's thought that LSI wo n't be the chosen foundry this time around . |
| 18 | Anil Gadre , vice president of systems product marketing at Sun told Unigram a couple of weeks ago that a Sparc version of Novell 's Portable NetWare would arrive soon : meanwhile it 's thought the two will shortly announce NetWare SunLink to run on top of Sun 's Solaris 2.0 for Intel Corp platforms , which is thought to be a key part of Sun 's bid to capture a share of the Unix-on-Intel market . |
| 19 | My police contacts say it 's thought she was the victim of a random attack by a thief . ’ |
| 20 | It 's thought both deaths may be drug-related . |
| 21 | The bodies have not yet been identified , but it 's thought they 're Linda Bohlen and Stefan Mohr who 've been missing since the end of September . |
| 22 | It 's thought they 're two missing German tourists . |
| 23 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 24 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 25 | It 's thought to have cost the Dickens and Jones department store £100,000 in lost business . |
| 26 | It 's thought around 70 travellers have been living on the site for several weeks . |
| 27 | It 's thought he 'd been incontinent and tried to wash himself . |
| 28 | In humans it 's thought to stimulate the body 's own natural painkillers . |
| 29 | It 's thought that the fire had been caused by a welders spark . |
| 30 | It 's thought to be the first time the species has been bred in captivity . |