Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] be thought [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It may also be thought that when an agreement is negotiated by a trade union inequality of bargaining power as understood in the cases is not often a relevant factor .
2 The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it .
3 But it should not be thought that at this time the Minister relied solely on the advice of his civil servants for the formation of policy .
4 It should not be thought that because we are elderly and in a warden controlled complex , we have ‘ lost our marbles ’ .
5 It should not be thought that Unionists enjoyed such a situation , for they certainly did not , but nor can it be suggested that they saw any real alternative , for in truth the basis of agreement on which parliamentary government " rested had all but broken down .
6 Meanwhile it should not be thought that no one is doing research into the uses of the printed book .
7 However , it should not be thought that a methodology can be devised to raise ali implicit themes to the level of explicitness , or that only the explicit aspects have attitudinal reality .
8 However , it should not be thought that Type I systems are non-problematic from the point of view of planning for the health ( care ) needs of a population .
9 It should not be thought that Labour Ministers were concerned only with domestic policy , although Morrison was Home Secretary , Bevin was Minister of Labour , and Dalton ( from early 1942 ) President of the Board of Trade .
10 However , in light of what has been said earlier , it should not be thought that data materials , to call them that , are always restricted to one study , or that the study which originally produced them is their only home .
11 However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence .
12 It must not be thought that these are neglected in the French nuclear programme .
13 It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place .
14 But it must not be thought that papal conciliar decrees which seem so clear-cut to the modern scholar , who sees them in all the clarity of the printed page , had a similar force and clarity for contemporaries .
15 But it must not be thought that he was in this alone in his society : there were others also who were not .
16 But it must not be thought that this domination is exercised only through the repression of dissent by police , though this certainly is important .
17 The baton is , however , necessary at the Opéra , where large choruses are frequently sung in the wings … it must not be thought that such a distant group of singers can hear the orchestra , however numerous : each person sings in his neighbour 's ear , and I have sometimes surprised myself by singing off the beat and incorrectly conducting [ conduisant ] the chorus surrounding me .
18 It must never be thought that a convicted criminal can buy his way out of imprisonment .
19 It might also be thought that seasonal workers would be distinguished from their regular counterparts by special contracts of employment .
20 But it might well be thought that if a procession has been regularly held even for such a comparatively short period of time , the police are aware that it is likely to take place , and it is therefore outside the rationale behind the advance notification requirement .
21 It might still be thought that an entire disc of music for solo viol could be a daunting prospect .
22 It might perhaps be thought that this would always be classified as a matter for unanimity .
23 In fact , it could easily be thought that increased alcohol consumption could result just in the increased incidence of recurrent pancreatitis .
24 The impracticality of the ‘ inferred recognition ’ theory as a legal concept for forensic use is obvious and it can not be thought that that was the intention of Her Majesty 's Government in giving the Parliamentary answers .
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