Example sentences of "was considered [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was considered incorrect , therefore , ‘ to measure all the military groups by the same yardstick ’ . |
| 2 | He was glad to see him , for he knew him for a tough , sturdy fellow , who was considered certain to get into the Owsla as soon as he reached full weight . |
| 3 | Fuel was considered expensive then , but the high capital outlay required for the construction of a rotor ship was far more disconcerting . |
| 4 | If the husband did not fulfil his obligation to maintain , then on balance it was considered preferable for the wife to go out and earn than for the whole family to become chargeable to the Poor Law . |
| 5 | This was considered preferable by the Law Commission to using a single word to denote either a qualitative standard , such as " good " , or a neutral standard , such as " proper " . |
| 6 | This multifunctional environment was considered suitable for developing a method that would be equally applicable to a wide range of organisations , albeit with totally different business objectives . |
| 7 | The parents did n't know then that a List D school was considered suitable for their son . |
| 8 | Pugin had complained that Victorian Gothic was considered suitable only for some purposes , ‘ MELANCHOLY , and therefore fit for religious buildings ! ! ! ’ |
| 9 | In 1938 the Folger Library in America , purchased a copy of one of Lambarde 's law books , this was found to contain Shakespeare 's signature , it was not until 1941 however that this was considered genuine . |
| 10 | These offices involved exacting duties in the enforcement of a system which was considered hateful and oppressive by the forest inhabitants ; default in any particular resulted in heavy amercement at the Forest Eyre . |
| 11 | Nothing was considered impossible . |
| 12 | In the late 1960s it was considered impossible to generate computer imagery at a high enough resolution to project onto a Cinerama screen — the electronic equivalent of ‘ grain' would have been unacceptably coarse and spotty . |
| 13 | Planning permission for the erection of three poultry houses , each 34 metres by 11 metres was refused the main reason being that the development of a substantial poultry business in such close proximity to a village was considered undesirable , by reason of the inherent risk of odour . |
| 14 | In the report of Souquet et al , when endosonography was considered normal , no recurrence was observed for the following three months , but a recurrence was usually confirmed immediately or within three months when endosonography indicated infiltration by tumour . |
| 15 | This was considered serious enough by the Keraing to have supplied Tandri with the cost of a new mast which he had promised to have cut from the forest of Bouton , an island we knew nothing about on the south-east of Celebes , a two-day sail across the Gulf of Palopo . |
| 16 | The name is somewhat misleading , since in ancient times it seems likely that the division of life into ‘ sacred ’ and ‘ secular ’ had no meaning : the whole of life was considered sacred , as were artistic and other creations . |
| 17 | Any place struck by a bolt of lightning was considered sacred to him . |
| 18 | Amber , however , seemed to have little consideration for Lucien or what was considered sacred . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it is clear that the Nazarean Party in Jerusalem was considered subversive , both by the Romans and by the official Sadducee establishment , for it was quickly in trouble with the authorities . |
| 20 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 21 | It was considered self-evident that it was in the general national , indeed imperial , interest to move towards free labour . |
| 22 | Mr. Gardiner relied on this case as demonstrating that it was considered self-evident that the right to recovery arose directly from the unlawful exaction irrespective of whether any element of compulsion existed . |
| 23 | Scientists and social theorists assumed that the ethics of family and state were entirely separate , and politicians of all persuasions felt justified in using familial language — in which men became benevolent protectors and women childlike — to describe the subordinate position of women ( and ‘ primitive ’ peoples ) , for within the family subordination was considered legitimate . |
| 24 | Even without rearranging the order of the records in the database , it was considered possible to use them to examine the actual organisation in a manner similar to that of the comparison stage of the SSM , ie by listing all activities and posing questions about their existence and effectiveness in the real situation , at the same time considering information-related problems . |
| 25 | It was noted that a number of forms and procedures had been devised by the Clerical Assistant and the OIC , and it was considered possible that the analysis might have been more revealing in other establishments where the approach to administrative work was not so methodical . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was considered possible , though doubtless unjustifiably , that some sharp practice might result , such as admixing rich ore from other parts of the mine with that at the reduced Royalty ! |
| 27 | Also , treatment was considered unsuccessful when clinical remission was not achieved after four weeks . |
| 28 | It was considered bourgeois to own or rent an appartement , so the artistic community of St-Germain-des Pres lived in hotels , paying daily for their night 's — or day 's — rest , flitting from one to the next as circumstances demanded . |
| 29 | Thirty years ago , rubbing a cut clove of garlic round the salad bowl was considered daring , but now we import 4,572 tonnes of the stuff , mainly from Italy , Spain and France , and as well as its wide ranging culinary uses there is increasing interest in its medicinal powers . |
| 30 | Its theme was considered daring . |