Example sentences of "be thought [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical . |
| 2 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |
| 3 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 6 | It might be thought that such policies spring from a desire , on the one hand , to ensure the free flowering of individual enterprise , and on the other , to guard against the tyrannies of " big business " . |
| 7 | Although it is easy to appreciate that the polymer must be sufficiently wettable to sustain a coherent layer of tear fluid , it might be thought that all problems associated with wettability would be overcome by the presence of water in the material . |
| 8 | But it must not be thought that this domination is exercised only through the repression of dissent by police , though this certainly is important . |
| 9 | However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is thought that some member States will have difficulty in adhering to such timing , although a spokesman for the Italian Ministero dei Beni Culturali said that , provided that the deadline was reasonable , there was no particular difficulty in cooperating with British authorities . |
| 16 | Conversely , it is thought that some employers will leap at the chance of employing enrolled nurses knowing or believing them to be a cheaper alternative in terms of pay . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is thought that this rhyme is based upon a musical rivalry between Handel and Bononcini . |
| 20 | It is thought that this move will be followed by stronger legislation which will in time ban all cigarette companies ' brand names and logos appearing in any form on Italian TV . |
| 21 | It is thought that this sub-section does not fully define " deception " . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Originally it was thought that this question might provide some useful insights into possible cover to allow people to attend courses . |
| 26 | For a long time it was thought that this Gospel was written by Matthew the Apostle . |
| 27 | Until very recently , it was thought that these symphonies , unlike almost all Mozart 's other music , were written for no specific occasion , but as the result of an inner impulse . |
| 28 | As a result of the considerable experience with percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , it was thought that these problems could be rapidly solved and the technique established to replace percutaneous cholecystolithotomy as it could be performed under local anaesthaesia by the transhepatic route and a postprocedural drain could be avoided . |
| 29 | Until recently , however , it was thought that these laws did not apply to the beginning of the universe . |
| 30 | It was thought that some people might have changed their views . |