Example sentences of "not be thought " in BNC.

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1 A consequence of this unquestioning enthusiasm is that the implications of change have not been thought through , and may yet have a sting or two in the tail .
2 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 .
3 The protocol of chain-pulling in multiple-occupancy urinals has not been thought through by the Works and Buildings Department .
4 Because some reforms are hidden from public view over the horizon does not mean that they have not been thought out and designed .
5 Constitutionally it had not been thought through .
6 At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance .
7 This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all .
8 It is a very common feature in the first questions drafted by students in schedule designing to ask questions which patently have not been thought about from the respondents ' point of view .
9 Penwith and Kerrier hundreds were obviously poorer than the eastern parts of the shire ; a high proportion of men were taxed on wages who had not been thought worth mentioning in the earlier survey , many of them poor immigrants variously described as tinners or labourers .
10 Conservative Robert Goodwill claims Labour 's minimum wage policy has not been thought through properly and that it would ‘ cause inflation to let rip again ’ .
11 It can be made , he wrote , but it can not be thought .
12 The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things .
13 The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme .
14 Because they are so pervasive , and because their subordinate terms remain so powerfully denigrated , the erotics of active/passive should not be identified as coextensive with masculine/feminine , and should not be thought identical across the hetero/homosexual divide .
15 Natural philosophy should not be thought deficient because we are ignorant of the ultimate causes of the characteristic properties and regular behaviour of things .
16 First , where the conduct would not be thought indecent by any right-minded observer , indecent assault could not be committed .
17 Wilson was immediately worried that the rooms she had ready would not be thought adequate , that indeed she did not know if she herself thought they were adequate , and that she would be unable to prepare meals in her feeble condition , but Miss Blagden laid to rest all her anxieties .
18 They were younger than she had expected and seemed shy and reticent , emphasising frequently , all the way up the stairs , that they wanted only a bolt-hole and must not be thought of as real boarders .
19 Reasons that should have determined the authority 's directive but failed to do so can not be thought to belong to the justification of the directive .
20 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 .
21 However , thanks to the efforts of Lord Dainton , and his rapport with Mrs Thatcher , whose tutor he was at Oxford , we are to get the New Library that in Bentley 's day could not be thought of , though the Victorians created an ideal solution for their day .
22 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 .
23 Such interconnection between the two sectors , primary and secondary , should not be thought of as a burden .
24 All these feelings are normal and should not be thought to be ‘ wrong ’ .
25 It is , however , possible that the experimental data would not be thought conclusive either ; most of the experiments that have been done of this type have been rather artificial ( Marsh 1985a ) .
26 Let it not be thought this will exclude the Presbyterians who are already making secret trips to Roman Catholic outfitters and coming away with bright blue cassocks and nifty black shirts with priestly collars which can be removed in the twinkling of an eye .
27 Although a common form of procedure for research is being recommended here it should not be thought for one moment that a hard and fast programme is being suggested to which every research enquiry should conform .
28 It must not be thought that these are neglected in the French nuclear programme .
29 It should not be thought , though , that Mauchline 's fame is restricted to its associations with the poet .
30 It should not be thought that because we are elderly and in a warden controlled complex , we have ‘ lost our marbles ’ .
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