Example sentences of "was [adv] considered [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was widely considered essential to their chances of securing the office over the Socialist candidate . |
| 2 | The Gamay was rightly considered inferior for the production of Champagne when AOC laws were introduced in 1927 and its cultivation was restricted , but a generous transitory period of 18 years was allowed for growers heavily dependent on the vine , because the authorities recognised the financial burden of replanting with the authorised varieties . |
| 3 | Abortion of a male up to 40 days and a female up to 80 days was thus considered permissible until 1989 , when the Church adopted its current position — that the soul was infused at conception — which effectively outlaws abortion . |
| 4 | To cry for no apparent reason was not considered odd . |
| 5 | Rover , although in a far healthier financial state than before , was not considered suitable for a similar sale of shares to the public . |
| 6 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 7 | In the absence of a basic level of agreement on issues , however , it was not considered worthwhile to bring delegates together at the conference table . |
| 8 | I ca n't answer that , because erm there 's certainly nothing in the text of the plan to suggest why it was not considered appropriate , erm and I do n't know erm I I ca n't instantly think what factors erm might have gone into that consideration . |
| 9 | This group involves women who were considered to need assessment or treatment , but where compulsion was not considered necessary . |
| 10 | Herod Antipas , tetrarch ( a title for a ruler who was not considered important enough to have the rank of king ; again it amounted to being a ‘ governor ’ ) of Galilee . |
| 11 | In Danzig it was still possible for a merchant to make a small fortune from the grain and timber trades , but it was not considered wise to invest the profits in agriculture — either the farms were too small and the returns non-existent , or the estates were too ramshackle and labour-intensive to warrant investment . |
| 12 | And the countryside of Cleveland and North Yorkshire was not considered beautiful enough to merit undergrounding the power project . |
| 13 | Petty was not considered active or dangerous enough to be arrested with the other Leveller leaders in late March 1649 , although he was later named as a leader of those who remained at large . |
| 14 | Yet when we played in Belfast , that was not considered high-risk . |
| 15 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 16 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 17 | Inevitably , the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |
| 18 | Inevitably the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |
| 19 | It is no accident that the rise of science and technology and subsequently industrialisation and the process of wealth creation followed the acceptance of an explicitly Biblical view of the world in which manual work was not considered contemptible and in which man was delegated the task of managing the world 's resources for his benefit . |
| 20 | He had twice held the Foreign Affairs portfolio since 1979 , and was generally considered loyal to Moi . |
| 21 | Hewson , a former professor of economics at the University of New South Wales , with only three years ' experience in the federal parliament , was generally considered competent but lacking in charisma . |
| 22 | As a political organisation it was generally considered defunct . |
| 23 | However , given the level of popular support for Iraq in the other countries , King Hassan 's decision to support the Egyptian line wholeheartedly was generally considered risky . |
| 24 | Compared to dormitory life and low student stipends , even what was once considered demeaning work could offer a much more comfortable life . |
| 25 | If the power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering seems excessively light at low speeds its directness , with a mere 2.5-turns lock to lock , makes you wonder whatever happened to the so-called ‘ sneeze factor ’ ( ie forgiving low gearing ) that was once considered essential in American cars . |
| 26 | It was once considered obvious that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the earth , yet since the time of Copernicus and Galileo , we have had to adjust to the idea that the earth is round and that it goes around the sun . |
| 27 | It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours , and I suppose the main reason why the place is a bit run down these days is because there was no man left to take over when Uncle died . |
| 28 | From now on ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was always considered good material for hungry fashion editors eager to spot a wayward trend and Moira cultivated close relationships with all the fashion editors of the day . |
| 29 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 30 | In addition , he has pursued his own passion for the painted interior decoration of this particular kind and scale of East Anglian yeoman farmhouse — a type of house that , only a few years ago , was hardly considered worthy of notice , so complete was the obsession of historians with work by named architects . |