Example sentences of "might be thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |
| 2 | The poem might be thought self-pitying if it were more believable . |
| 3 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 6 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 7 | To an observer Wexford might be thought only to be sitting , like many other inhabitants of Kingsmarkham , waiting for the storm to break . |
| 8 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 9 | Any estate owner who achieved this might be thought to have made a notable bargain . |
| 10 | In the case of Jesus it might be thought that he represents the management , not the workers . |
| 11 | The merit of separate qualified defences is that they focus the evidence and the legal argument , giving the jury ( in contested cases ) an opportunity to assess the defence , and giving the judge fairly precise guidance on the basis for sentencing : this might be thought to ensure that each defendant is dealt with more fairly , but the risk of confusing the jury in a contested case might tend to erode that protection . |
| 12 | For many others the choice of hymns is probably restricted to ‘ Love divine all loves excelling ’ and ‘ Away in a manger ’ , neither of which , it might be thought , is very suitable for the occasion ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The wide mouth might be thought of as a kind of lawn mower for taking up vast quantities of grass to support their huge bodies . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | To illustrate , I will take what might be thought to be an example posing relatively few problems — the case of the Loch Ness monster . |
| 17 | It might be thought that those seeking detailed information about a particular school should show a special reason for wanting it , but there is no suggestion in any of the Regulations that availability of the information should be limited . |
| 18 | It might be thought , for example , that the arbitrator is typical of adjudicative authorities , and that what might be called legislative authorities differ from them in precisely these respects . |
| 19 | This Gotteschalk , a precursor of Luther , even to renouncing his Vows , might be thought in his intransigent predestinarian vision to figure some of the later Evangelicals of our day , and Neighbour Pliable perhaps a satire upon those like myself , who believe that Christianity does not consist in the idolatrous presence of the Deity in a piece of bread , nor yet in the five points of metaphysic faith . |
| 20 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 21 | It might be thought reasonable to treat all cases of NSU so diagnosed when they initially present to the clinic as if they had a sexually transmitted disease and prescribe appropriate antibiotics , and , indeed , this is common practice in most clinics . |
| 22 | They have also been attacked by the courts , with the result that it is difficult to see what practical effect such clauses might be thought to have . |
| 23 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 24 | In a book concerned with the need for a common policy to cover the education of all children at all stages of their careers , it might be thought right to start with a discussion of the primary school . |
| 25 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ In Vienna it might be thought so , ’ agreed Fräulein Müller , ‘ but in a small town in the Rhineland people are more conservative in their ways … |
| 28 | Newspaper reports , where a reporter was present at the scene , might be thought to be valuable , but unfortunately it has been shown only too often how little reliance can be placed on them . |
| 29 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 30 | The College having been named , the secretary was directed ( it might be thought , somewhat late in the day ) to draw up statutes for its constitution and organisation . |