Example sentences of "[be] thought [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | September trade figures , due on 24 October , are thought critical for sterling 's fortunes . |
| 2 | The same men are thought responsible for two similar attacks in Buckinghamshire on Bonfire night . |
| 3 | Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She wondered , however , whether the philosophy of matching services closely to needs might eventually mean that existing residents who were relatively independent might be thought unsuitable for Mencap 's homes . |
| 6 | He declined Dinah 's offer ; no doubt it would in any case be thought improper for two young ladies to drive a young man home . |
| 7 | In many districts cattle were thought essential for rice cultivation , and when there was a shortage fields lay fallow . |
| 8 | However , the airline 's firm orders for 20 Airbus A321 medium-range jets and 28 McDonnell Douglas jets will not be delivered until the mid-1990s , and unlike some other European airlines , Alitalia is thought vulnerable for want of international partners and a strategy for deregulation of the European market after 1992 . |
| 9 | What is more difficult to predict into the middle of the next century is the proportion of the total population that this older group will constitute , because that depends upon the birth-rate , and the latter , if past experience is anything to go on , shifts unpredictably with transient social circumstances — such as the level of unemployment or whether or not there is a war — as well as with unstable social attitudes to child-bearing and the age at which it is thought suitable for women to bear children . |
| 10 | It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife . |
| 11 | At that first meeting , two applicants for the post of assistant nurse were considered ( but neither was thought suitable for interview ) . |
| 12 | A feud between the Medellín and Cali cartels was thought responsible for the massacre of 22 workers on a ranch near Cali on Sept. 25 . |
| 13 | The priest 's home was usually near the church , it was not until the eighteenth century when services became more infrequent that it was thought proper for the priest to become established in a big house , perhaps on a distant part of the glebe , and live with much of the dignity of a squire . |
| 14 | The incident was thought fit for the purpose , and adopted accordingly . |
| 15 | It was thought improper for elderly women to wear bright clothes . |