Example sentences of "[is] think to be [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Because work is still considered a male role , leisure , similarly , is thought to be a male preserve .
2 Anil Gadre , vice president of systems product marketing at Sun told Unigram a couple of weeks ago that a Sparc version of Novell 's Portable NetWare would arrive soon : meanwhile it 's thought the two will shortly announce NetWare SunLink to run on top of Sun 's Solaris 2.0 for Intel Corp platforms , which is thought to be a key part of Sun 's bid to capture a share of the Unix-on-Intel market .
3 Even the Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , has been unable to obtain a copy of what is thought to be a damning indictment of Orkney Islands Council Social Work Department .
4 He is thought to be a good economist , but a back-room boy .
5 Lee Brown , the former New York police chief who was appointed as ‘ drug tsar ’ by Bill Clinton on April 28th , is thought to be a good appointment .
6 Ours is thought to be a multi-faith , multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society , one in which diversity of life-style flourishes and which tolerates and fosters social and individual differences .
7 The buyer was not identified , but is thought to be a private collector .
8 Thus , its growth rate is thought to be a useful guide to the future rate of inflation .
9 The desire to achieve success at work , and to be recognised as doing so , is thought to be a powerful source of motivation .
10 These observations suggest that the rectal contractile response , which is thought to be a spinal reflex and the internal sphincter relaxation , an enteric reflex , are both normally suppressed by descending inhibitory pathways .
11 A useful collection of theorems and proofs is presented at the end of the chapter : among these is what is thought to be a novel proof of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy .
12 Naming rape victims without their permission is thought to be a bad thing .
13 This form of predation by Egyptian vultures is thought to be a significant source of egg loss for many ostriches .
14 If price is thought to be a significant factor in the product 's success , then the manufacturer should only deal with distributors who are willing to agree a mark-up and selling price with the manufacturer .
15 A second limitation , at least if the joint profit maximizing ( cartel ) allocation is thought to be a likely objective of the collusion , is that this allocation may not be sustainable by threats of reversion to a Cournot-Nash equilibrium .
16 Among the objects to be sold are what is thought to be the only signed painting by Petrus Troueil , the portrait of Sir Francis Ottley and his family ( est. £40–60,000 ) , Sir Joshua Reynolds 's ‘ Admiral Cotes ’ ( est. £15–20,000 ) and other paintings by John Hoppner , James Ward , Michael Dahl and Sir Godfrey Kneller .
17 Then people will do the environmentally ‘ correct' thing , not because it is thought to be the moral , but rather the practical , thing to do . ’
18 This is thought to be the protective effect of oestrogen , which lowers the level of the ‘ bad ’ cholesterol ( low-density lipoprotein ) and raises the level of the ‘ good ’ ( high-density lipoprotein ) .
19 This sense of the maverick is coupled with a talent for making complex , lyrical films which possess the depth and artistry that is thought to be the sole province of European and art house directors .
20 Most modern text-writers state it with some slight , hesitant reservation ( and this is thought to be the correct view ) .
21 Poll tax evasion is thought to be the main reason for the falling numbers .
22 Chronic dietary insufficiency is thought to be the single main cause but the mechanism is unclear .
23 This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre .
24 Once massive amyloid dposits occur in the muscularis propria , this myopathy is thought to be an irreversible change because of the difficulty of elimination of this insoluble protein .
25 A second reason is that the market for corporate control is thought to be an important disciplining device particularly in those circumstances where competition in product markets is absent .
26 As noted by Kelsall ( 1979 ) , if the development of appreciative faculties is thought to be an important goal of art education then ‘ … approaches to achieving this goal by means other than those based exclusively on the productive aspects of art need to be developed ’ .
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