Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another . |
| 2 | As with Creature Comforts , Lowe Howard-Spink 's work for Tesco , which won the campaign of the year in services , was deemed by some to be beyond its first flush of freshness , but its impact on consumer perceptions continues to impress . |
| 3 | Hence it was reluctant to take the unpopular measures deemed by some to be necessary to tackle Britain 's long-term problems . |
| 4 | In 1930 he was the youngest member of the Reichstag and was considered by all to be a high-flyer . |
| 5 | IT SEEMS that even in its own time the thirteenth-century motet was considered by many to be a sophisticated , subtle genre , only likely to appeal to the literati . |
| 6 | His Call to the Unconverted is considered by many to be the greatest work on conversion ever written . |
| 7 | Tracker 's Aggro trucks are considered by many to be the ‘ right on ’ truck at the moment . |
| 8 | The traditional , vertical Champagne press , based on the concepts employed by Dom Pérignon , is still considered by many to be the best means of pressing grapes for the sparkling wine of Champagne . |
| 9 | It is also considered by many to be the best surviving example of a tower mill . |
| 10 | Dud haga was considered by many to be part of growing up and no treatment was therefore thought necessary . |
| 11 | Now , some ten years later , the airfield is bulging at the seams and is considered by many to be the warbird centre of Europe . |
| 12 | I have described these studies in detail because they are considered by many to be the best evidence for sophisticated residual pattern vision after visual cortex ablation . |
| 13 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
| 14 | Here visitors find a stunning coast of soft pale sands , considered by many to be among the most beautiful of the Adriatic Riviera . |
| 15 | It is easy to imagine the hapless Parker , considered by many to be one of commercial cinemas finest film-makers , pinned to a wall by this angry young man , having the plot of his next project outlined for him . |
| 16 | Considered by many to be the country 's leading authority on the hair and scalp , Philip Kingsley has been practising from the London Trichological Centre , 54 Green Street , London W1 , since 1960 , composing individual trichological treatments for private clients only . |
| 17 | The transfer payments of the Poor Law — finally abolished and transformed into the ‘ Welfare State ’ in 1948 — were considered by many to be an intolerable burden . |
| 18 | By the 1730s he was considered by many to be the richest commoner in England , and at his death his income from landed property , coalmining , investments in government funds , and mortgage holdings was around £25,000 annually . |
| 19 | To some extent , therefore , A level art/design classes offered by the schools are in competition with foundation courses offered by art colleges ; however , the two are not strictly comparable in that the former are considered by many to be less suitable as pre-entry training for higher level courses in that their diagnostic value is much less than that of foundation courses . |
| 20 | The earlier Count and Add software is considered by many to be one of the best first maths programs for youngsters , and much care appears to have be spent on this new version . |
| 21 | The victory of Kennett , who was not considered by many to be the state 's most able or charismatic politician , was interpreted as clear evidence of massive dissatisfaction with the ALP , which had governed the state for the last 10 years , and was alleged to have overseen serious financial mismanagement under both Kirner and her predecessor John Cain . |
| 22 | It is precisely the ‘ business culture ’ introduced and propagated by the TNCs that is considered by many to be the sine qua non for ‘ modernization ’ ( as opposed to ‘ dependency reversal ’ or radical ‘ development ’ ) in the Third World . |
| 23 | Which brings us to camp , considered by some to be the essence of the homosexual sensibility , by others , both within and without gay culture , as virtually the opposite : the quintessence of an alienated , inadequate sensibility ( above , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 24 | Major was perplexed that his niceness should be considered by some to be an electoral disadvantage . |
| 25 | This may be considered by some to be an invitation to explore the issue of whether the switching-off is an act or an omission ; for if it is an act , it may be an abetment . |
| 26 | Its horns are lyre-shaped and it is considered by some to be the ancestor of the Guernsey . |
| 27 | However , the introduction of proposals which structurally divorce the providers of services from wider population considerations , may be considered by some to be a retrograde step and , in practice , may affect the type of care delivered . |
| 28 | A typical model , considered by some to be applicable in any communication situation , would take the following form : |
| 29 | When presented in this way the proposed merger appears to be based on clear industrial logic , although it was considered by some to be partly a defensive move on the part of the companies involved ( especially Imperial , which was hoping that , by increasing its own size , it would help to reduce the chance of an unwanted takeover from a third party ) . |
| 30 | Other candidates proposed have included Nicholas Turner of the British Museum , Andrew Robison of the National Gallery , Washington , Marguerite Stuffmann of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt ( Goldner 's suggestion to the Met ) , Gandolfi expert Mimi Cazort of the National Gallery of Canada , and Bean 's own assistant curator , William M. Griswold , whose youth is considered by some to be a liability . |