Example sentences of "be considered to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 2 | In general this owl has been considered to be a woodland species preying on woodland rodents and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 3 | In fact , Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland . |
| 4 | It has been considered to be a pool car . |
| 5 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 6 | Much of what has been considered to be poststructuralism 's wild disregard for history can be accounted for by the fact that it was operating within this — largely unknown outside France — anti-empiricist and anti-positivist tradition . |
| 7 | This had been considered to be ‘ over-generous ’ to those , especially women , who have shorter than average periods of employment or non-incremental earnings . |
| 8 | Certainly the reliance now of necessity of such systems demands , and fortunately the nature of these types of premises is likely to permit , a much closer relationship between the ‘ business end ’ of the system and the valves which control it than has previously been considered to be necessary . |
| 9 | This will certainly have caused concern in the Middle Ages and some unfortunates may have been considered to be " possessed " of evil spirits and treated accordingly . |
| 10 | Until recently women have been considered to be at low risk from HIV and AIDS , and attention has been focussed on so-called high risk groups . |
| 11 | In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 12 | This ( majority ) section of the white population had been considered to be especially resistant to change , but analysts estimated that 62 per cent of Afrikaners participating voted " yes " ( compared with 79 per cent of the English-speakers ) . |
| 13 | In Britain , for example , Merseyside , Sheffield and Glasgow have long been considered to be ‘ red islands ’ within British society : the labour movement having forced out of the state substantial levels of collective housing and welfare provision . |
| 14 | Accordingly , laminin has been considered to be a marker of fibrogenesis . |
| 15 | This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success . |
| 16 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 17 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 18 | Eventually , of course , the dug-outs return with the news that prices and demand had increased on other islands also and that what had erroneously been considered to be a series of relative price and demand shifts turned out to have affected all islands equally . |
| 19 | An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand . |
| 20 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 21 | Sheriff Brian Lockhart , who is presiding over the fatal accident inquiry , asked whether the Newton plans , referred to throughout five weeks of the inquiry so far as ‘ single lead ’ had not been considered to be so at the time . |
| 22 | If we had won all the Tests but lost all the one-dayers , then it would have been considered to be a successful trip . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ College men ’ or ‘ academics ’ are considered to be potentially dangerous and polluting because of their limited understanding of the ‘ polis 's ’ real world ; for they never stay long enough to experience the depth and complexities of the activities which lend him his ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 24 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 25 | These high-yield debt securities are considered to be instruments of the devil . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Women are considered to be ‘ partners in creating life ’ and therefore have a close and intuitive link with God . |
| 28 | Some books are considered to be ‘ unputdownable ’ but this one seems to be ‘ unpickupable ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Lemurs are considered to be amongst the more primitive of the primates . |