Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [not/n't] be thought that " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It should not be thought that because we are elderly and in a warden controlled complex , we have ‘ lost our marbles ’ .
4 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 .
5 Meanwhile it should not be thought that no one is doing research into the uses of the printed book .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It must not be thought that these are neglected in the French nuclear programme .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 But it must not be thought that he was in this alone in his society : there were others also who were not .
15 But it must not be thought that this domination is exercised only through the repression of dissent by police , though this certainly is important .
16 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 .
17 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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