Example sentences of "[be] thought [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hoped that they will keep the client in power , but today , as in Stalin 's day , additional measures are thought necessary to guarantee that the client remains reliable himself . |
| 2 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 3 | The answers will then by analysed to find out what changes or improvements , if any , are thought appropriate . |
| 4 | Most doctors agree that diet plays a part in prevention of heart disease — less animal fats and more fibre are thought best — as discussed earlier . |
| 5 | September trade figures , due on 24 October , are thought critical for sterling 's fortunes . |
| 6 | Now what remains to be settled is the status of those claims for moral rights that do not enjoy the reflected sanction of the law ( examples of which I have already slighted as rhetoric ) , and those , perhaps more all-absorbing ones , that are thought meritorious enough by some to become laws . |
| 7 | The same men are thought responsible for two similar attacks in Buckinghamshire on Bonfire night . |
| 8 | Some of the water authorities are thought likely to attract predatory interest . |
| 9 | The latest offerings are thought likely to reach 235 MIPS , and will be the last 88100 offerings before the company steps up to Motorola 's next generation 88110 part . |
| 10 | Although the DoT has said that all options are still open , the consultants are thought likely to recommend the construction of a road from the Chelmsford by-pass to the M25 . |
| 11 | The extra costs of £9.60 a year per household are thought likely to be passed on through local taxation . |
| 12 | The cost of a gallon of petrol is going up again from tomorrow , Shell is increasing the cost of the petrol by 3.2 pence a gallon to more than two pound thirty-four pence and other oil companies are thought likely to follow suit . |
| 13 | Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries . |
| 14 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 15 | It has therefore been thought prudent to invoke the concept of dual porosity to explain the anomalous behaviour . |
| 16 | NOT for almost five years has it been thought necessary to preview a meeting of the General Committee of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club but today , at 5.30pm at Headingley , the 22 members will gather knowing that once again they wil be under intense scrutiny by the media . |
| 17 | While his arguments about capital punishment are still of great relevance , it now seems rather odd that it could have been thought necessary to have to argue against the use of torture for extracting confessions . |
| 18 | But in the case of companies these practices have been converted into legal regulations because this has been thought necessary to protect those interested in the company and those having dealings with it . |
| 19 | She put her arms out from her sides and back , arching her spine and pondering vaguely as she did so why it had been thought necessary or relevant to give them such old bodies , perhaps to keep the idea of the passing of time , simple mortality , to the forefront of their minds . |
| 20 | Despite contravening almost all the rules that have been thought necessary for providing machine translation the system manages to achieve correct translation in 48% of cases . |
| 21 | Has it been thought necessary to make any special provision to protect the position of those minorities ? |
| 22 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |
| 23 | Geometric abstraction has been a mainstay in the art of Valerie Jaudon for many years : she has worked more patterned variations on the relationship between the curved and the straight line than might have been thought possible . |
| 24 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 25 | One of the most exciting suggestions to emerge from the research of the Schools Council History project , and in later research into primary history teaching methods , has been the idea that certain , concept-based methods of History teaching can lead to pupils reaching certain levels of historical understanding at a rather earlier stage than had previously been thought possible . |
| 26 | Well we discovered that there were some compounds in interstellar space that we were really rather more complicated than had previously been thought possible , and these molecules had infeasible prebiotic species , in that there were very simple reactions that could take place that would allow them to form amino acids and other rather intriguing biological molecules . |
| 27 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 28 | Even five years ago an attendance of less than 35,000 would have been thought surprising . |
| 29 | It might even have been thought perverse . |
| 30 | Throughout the history of Western philosophy women have been thought inferior or less than fully human , though some philosophers , like Kant and Rousseau , have found them charming and necessary to men 's well-being , as long as they keep in their place . |