Example sentences of "[conj] it be thought [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now known that many plants grow at temperatures as low as 0°C , albeit slowly , and it is thought that higher temperatures are more important in the earlier half of the year . |
| 2 | The incident took place at around 4.30 on Thursday afternoon , and it is thought that one of the men could be middle aged and the other younger . |
| 3 | It seems that anxious people condition most easily and it is thought that irrational fears are established in this way . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | As with GSK3 , phosphorylation by CKII also inhibits c-Jun DNA binding in vitro and it is thought that this is a mechanism by which the cell can maintain c-Jun in an inactive state until it is activated by dephosphorylation . |
| 6 | In the longer term , spectrum has been identified in the band 4.4GHz to 5.03GHz and it is thought that military tactical requirements and outside broadcast and news gathering applications ‘ could be compatible in such situations ’ . |
| 7 | Their lenses are much thicker and it is thought that these species lived where there was little light and needed thick lenses to collect and concentrate what light there was . |
| 8 | Controlled by a single gene , the deficiency is usually harmless , but certain drugs for malaria or a type of bean can cause those without the proper gene to suffer acute anaemia , and it is thought that some chemical might do the same . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And , if it is thought that such a state of affairs is , for whatever reason , undesirable , then it behoves those who argue for another approach to learn the lesson of political realities . |
| 11 | If it is thought that this is one of the pleasanter , more protective aspects of male chauvinism , this is mistaken . |
| 12 | ‘ If it were thought that other clubs would try to copy them , their example might , I am afraid , be unfortunate . |
| 13 | The significance of this observation is still unknown , but it is thought that such larvae may resume development if the adult hookworm population is removed by an anthelmintic or at times of stress such as lactation . |
| 14 | These awful conditions naturally made it quite impossible to tell what was happening actually on Krakatoa , but it is thought that some milder explosive activity continued . |
| 15 | The Office for Fine Arts has not made definite plans about the procedure to be followed but it is thought that those institutions which already have some of the works of art on loan will be allowed to keep them , while the museums will be able to choose from what is left . |
| 16 | Examples of jackets faced in this way do survive , badged to Militia and Volunteer units ; but it is thought that few , if any , Regular officers acquired them . |
| 17 | There is very little known abut the carvers of medieval bench ends but it is thought that most of them were ordinary local craftsmen , and so there would have been no reason to record this fact . |
| 18 | A search of the area is still going on , but it 's thought that all 99 passengers and fourteen crew were killed . |
| 19 | ( Lest it be thought that that example does not count because it is seventeenth-century English , it is worth noting that modern translations retain the and at the beginning of that verse . ) |
| 20 | The speed with which investors react to changes in wealth is dependent upon whether such changes are anticipated and whether it is thought that any gains are transitory in nature , arising from short-term price variability independent of the underlying trend rate of growth . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Occasionally the proprietors of some of the quality houses would comment on the successful inclusion of travel films in the programme as it was thought that this would impress the casual respectable trade but far more common was the exhibitor who reported a hostile response to short films dealing with ‘ industrial ’ subjects . |