Example sentences of "be think [conj] [adj] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impracticality of the ‘ inferred recognition ’ theory as a legal concept for forensic use is obvious and it can not be thought that that was the intention of Her Majesty 's Government in giving the Parliamentary answers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It might be thought that this was essentially a matter for the internal law of State A , the forum State . |
| 7 | However , I would net wish it to be thought that this was necessarily a unique example . |
| 8 | At one time it was thought that this was because the dunnock was a recent cuckoo host , but Chaucer 's reference in The Parlement of Foules makes it clear that the dunnock was a popular cuckoo host as long ago as the 14th century . |