Example sentences of "lest it [am/are] thought that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lest it be thought that the matriarchs are supreme in this artless craft of rendering service into an offensive act , it has to be said that the Glasgow cabbie is in a class of his own . |
| 2 | Lest it be thought that I have singled out young persons as a special problem , let me hasten to add that I think that the behaviour of youth cultures has to be seen as a mirror image of the adult society . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | Lest it be thought that there is little help at hand , the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) , responsible for much of the supervision of the 1974 Act , does supply some helpful explanatory material . |
| 5 | Lest it be thought that the form of cultural essentialism being challenged here appears only in lay public debate , consider this astonishing but revealing passage from Professor John Rex , a leading figure in British ‘ race relations ’ research . |
| 6 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 7 | One critic expressed fears that it might ‘ … become a new kind of legal aid on the cheap , ’ yet others were concerned lest it be thought that the green form was appropriate for anything other than low-cost proceedings . |