Example sentences of "[pron] be thought that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Neither should it be thought that informal methods necessarily lead to untidy work presented in a poor hand . |
2 | ‘ If it were thought that other clubs would try to copy them , their example might , I am afraid , be unfortunate . |
3 | It 's thought that six-month-old Hannah Davies was dropped on her head by a three-year-old boy , though the inquest jury returned an open verdict because of conflicting evidence . |
4 | It is thought that therapeutic operations provide such a social benefit by the psychological benefit . |
5 | It is thought that high-mass X-ray binaries accrete primarily from a stellar wind escaping from the companion star whereas LMXBs accrete by means of Roche-lobe overflow into a disc ; a viable hypothesis is that QPOs are a generic feature of disc accretion , regardless of the precise nature of the compact object . |
6 | It seems that anxious people condition most easily and it is thought that irrational fears are established in this way . |
7 | It is thought that sudden exposure to intense sunlight is a trigger to melanoma , and young office workers are typical victims . |
8 | It is thought that British Midland considered the City Airport some time ago , but decided against moving in at that stage . |
9 | It is thought that high sugar intakes and low chromium levels predispose to hardening of the arteries and raised cholesterol levels later in life . |
10 | A second objective of the research is to explore the way that managerial policies are being developed between HQ , divisional management , profit and cost centre management and at the establishment and work-place levels at a time when it is thought that large companies are decentralising their management systems . |
11 | The genus appeared suddenly in the Atlantic at the end of the Pliocene without any local antecedent forms , and it is thought that transarctic migrations of several Pacific genera , including Buccinunl and Searlesja as well as Nucella , occurred through the Bering Strait , between a half and one million years before the onset of the first of the Pleistocene glaciations ( Franz and Merrill , 1980 ) . |
12 | It was thought that amending legislation would be introduced ( Practical Lawyer , June 1990 , p11 ) but until it is , in addition to the risk of the conveyance or transfer with respect to the matrimonial home being set aside , the wife may find it difficult to sell the property ( although the Law Society takes the view that there is " very little risk that a Court would exercise its powers to deprive an innocent owner of his title . " |
13 | Of the 750 men who had originally walked out , 450 were still in Edinburgh ; of these 200 were still unemployed a week later and it was thought that full absorption would take up to six months ; in fact by early April , only 20 strikers were still without work . |
14 | For long it was thought that wet spraying turned the buds to a wet mash , and therefore dusting each individual bud was necessary . |
15 | When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England . |
16 | At one time it was thought that high-fibre diets containing bran would be successful , but this has not proved to be the case . |
17 | Hitherto it was thought that natural selection is standing still , or merely weeding out the more harmful defects . |