Example sentences of "be thought that " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It must never be thought that a convicted criminal can buy his way out of imprisonment . |
| 4 | In the case of Jesus it might be thought that he represents the management , not the workers . |
| 5 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It may be thought that the same verdict applies to the third principle as well . |
| 10 | The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it . |
| 11 | It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public . |
| 12 | It used to be thought that as the practice of copying became more common the Romans devised an instrument similar to the modern pointing machine for making exact reproductions . |
| 13 | It also used to be thought that pillow lavas could form only at great depths below the surface . |
| 14 | But it should not be thought that at this time the Minister relied solely on the advice of his civil servants for the formation of policy . |
| 15 | For example , it may be thought that a computer programmer will extract some kind of revenge by introducing a logic bomb into the computer system . |
| 16 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 17 | It used to be thought that this was temporary diabetes resulting from the stress of infarction , but present data suggest that these patients have undiagnosed diabetes before infarction ( Husband et al , 1983 ; Oswald et al , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So far we have considered three ways of sampling directly from a given population , but it may be thought that this direct method has dangers attached . |
| 20 | On death-beds it may be thought that a soon-to-be-deceased settlor is susceptible to giving either involuntary nods or nods to propositions imperfectly understood , or both . |
| 21 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 22 | It must not be thought that these are neglected in the French nuclear programme . |
| 23 | It might still be thought that an entire disc of music for solo viol could be a daunting prospect . |
| 24 | Although it is easy to appreciate that the polymer must be sufficiently wettable to sustain a coherent layer of tear fluid , it might be thought that all problems associated with wettability would be overcome by the presence of water in the material . |
| 25 | It should not be thought that because we are elderly and in a warden controlled complex , we have ‘ lost our marbles ’ . |
| 26 | It used to be thought that the correct technique was to add positive pitch at just the right moment to give a survivable — if not gentle-landing . |
| 27 | At a first glance , it may be thought that methods for script and speech recognition would be the same , because both are attempting to process natural language . |
| 28 | It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened . |
| 29 | It used to be thought that a species was either monogamous or polygamous and that , in this respect at least , its behaviour was fixed . |
| 30 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |