Example sentences of "[be] thought that [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not be thought that Labour Ministers were concerned only with domestic policy , although Morrison was Home Secretary , Bevin was Minister of Labour , and Dalton ( from early 1942 ) President of the Board of Trade . |
| 2 | It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place . |
| 3 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 4 | But it must not be thought that this domination is exercised only through the repression of dissent by police , though this certainly is important . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seems that anxious people condition most easily and it is thought that irrational fears are established in this way . |
| 8 | It is thought that these cases were brought more for publicity , to force the health authority to act , than in the hope of legal success . |
| 9 | It is thought that this decision is doubtful in view of the Court of Appeal decision in Parsons v Uttley Ingham & Co [ 1978 ] QB 791 . |
| 10 | It is thought that this rhyme is based upon a musical rivalry between Handel and Bononcini . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 13 | Previously it was thought that all coins were struck from separate dies , but the increasing sophistication of photography in the late nineteenth century enabled scholars to appreciate that die links could be found , and the first full die study of the coins of a Greek city was published in 1906 . |
| 14 | For a long time it was thought that this Gospel was written by Matthew the Apostle . |
| 15 | Hitherto it was thought that natural selection is standing still , or merely weeding out the more harmful defects . |