Example sentences of "considered to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | THAILAND may soon follow Hong Kong 's example in deporting Vietnamese boat people not considered to be genuine refugees , reports reaching here suggest . |
| 32 | Hong Kong people , like others considered to be aliens under British law , can also apply to emigrate to Britain under very limited criteria . |
| 33 | On their 18th birthday , and sometimes even before , anyone in care is considered to be an adult and able to fend for themselves . |
| 34 | This story did the rounds some years ago , when Romanians already had the measure of their leader , but while the West was still honouring President Ceausescu for what was considered to be his independent stand on foreign policy issues . |
| 35 | The town centre , west of the Windrush river , was first laid out by the Bishop of Winchester in the early 13th. century , and is considered to be a fine example of medieval town planning . |
| 36 | The Long Library , almost 200 ft. long is considered to be the room of the most outstanding beauty for it contains over 10,000 books plus various paintings by Van Dyck and Reynolds . |
| 37 | There was nothing else considered to be OK . |
| 38 | Popularly considered to be a creature of peaceful virtue and undisguised joy , the dolphin was a guardian of the sea and a guide to other worlds . |
| 39 | The blubber was probably considered to be a valuable dietary supplement to help counter the effects of the cold weather . |
| 40 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 41 | Conventional scientific wisdom has held that whales are relatively immune from the effects of toxic chemicals , because such contaminants were thought to be safely stored in the blubber , a tissue considered to be fairly inert . |
| 42 | These high-yield debt securities are considered to be instruments of the devil . |
| 43 | Its civil jurisdiction was encroached upon , as contracts made and wrongs done abroad or at sea were brought within the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts by fictions , such as the pretence that such towns as Bordeaux were within the area of , say , Cheapside , so that many international commercial transactions were considered to be purely municipal . |
| 44 | The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access . |
| 45 | Bevin and Dalton felt that Franco 's invasion of Spain with his fascist forces justified rearmament , while Cripps and the Socialist League continued to support the ‘ united front ’ campaign since the National government was considered to be untrustworthy . |
| 46 | Similarly , after childbirth the placenta is disposed of with great ritual care , since it is considered to be the solidified form of the mother 's menstrual blood during her pregnancy . |
| 47 | Modesty in looks and behaviour is considered to be the ideal in Judaism . |
| 48 | There are many stories in the Bible about great love between men and women , but the ideal role models in Judaism are considered to be the Patriarchs and Matriarchs : Sarah and Abraham , Isaac and Rebecca , and Jacob and Rachel . |
| 49 | Women are considered to be ‘ partners in creating life ’ and therefore have a close and intuitive link with God . |
| 50 | British companies , which are now considered to be leaders in the value-added sector , come to the show to expose their products and learn about this dynamic market . |
| 51 | He caught the eye with a highly encouraging performance despite finishing last but was not seriously considered to be in the same league as the adored ‘ Dessie ’ . |
| 52 | This liturgical elaboration is sometimes considered to be a special feature of the monastic movements of the tenth century radiating from Gorze-Trier , Cluny in Burgundy , Gerard of Brogne , and from Ethelwold of Winchester and others in England . |
| 53 | Only one rider , a slightly built girl called ‘ Evelyn ’ , was considered to be sufficiently capable to ride this powerful and frightening horse , which she did to the admiration and applause of everyone watching . |
| 54 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 55 | Brownie and Lola were young and defiant at a time when those who went their own way were considered to be delinquent . |
| 56 | AT 30 , Daldry is widely considered to be an inspired choice as the artistic director-designate of the Royal Court , London 's embattled home of new writing . |
| 57 | Some books are considered to be ‘ unputdownable ’ but this one seems to be ‘ unpickupable ’ . |
| 58 | Because money from the off-farm jobs was put into the farm , it was difficult to ascertain what the trading position of the part-time farm actually was but the figures quoted are considered to be fairly near the mark . |
| 59 | The first type — active familial disruption — involved a woman in her thirties who was considered to be suffering from schizophrenia . |
| 60 | The second example — a woman considered to be depressed — involved passive withdrawal from her usual role . |