Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] many 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | His Call to the Unconverted is considered by many to be the greatest work on conversion ever written . |
| 4 | Tracker 's Aggro trucks are considered by many to be the ‘ right on ’ truck at the moment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is also considered by many to be the best surviving example of a tower mill . |
| 7 | Dud haga was considered by many to be part of growing up and no treatment was therefore thought necessary . |
| 8 | Now , some ten years later , the airfield is bulging at the seams and is considered by many to be the warbird centre of Europe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Here visitors find a stunning coast of soft pale sands , considered by many to be among the most beautiful of the Adriatic Riviera . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Acid rain ’ is reckoned by many to be caused when the gases from fossil-fuelled power stations , oil refineries , car exhausts , smelters and factories — sulphur dioxide and the nitrogen oxides — combine in the atmosphere with moisture to form sulphuric and nitric acids . |
| 21 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 22 | This well strange song from Young 's great ‘ Ragged Glory ’ LP is reckoned by many to be an oblique nod in the direction of Charlie . |
| 23 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 24 | While CD-I has remained a promise for more than four years , Commodore has used existing technology to produce a consumer multimedia system that is seen by many to be a serious competitor for CD-I . |
| 25 | Seclusion and privacy is also seen by many to be important . |
| 26 | These was felt to be an excessive use in the Act of phrases such as ‘ consult ’ , ‘ challenge ’ , ‘ take note of ’ and ‘ reasonable ’ , which were thought by many to be vague and open to interpretation . |
| 27 | There are bills from London tailors and hat-makers and the same building holds the tomb of Anthony Foster , thought by many to be instrumental in the demise of this popular young woman . |
| 28 | The pulpit had won a victory over the theatre , and the stage was thought by many to be a thing of the devil . |
| 29 | Fish is thought by many to be ‘ brain-food ’ . |
| 30 | It was thought by many to be far from impressive in its conformation and action but the experienced Kilpatrick recognised its potential and tried to buy it . |