Example sentences of "it [be] thought [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOT for almost five years has it been thought necessary to preview a meeting of the General Committee of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club but today , at 5.30pm at Headingley , the 22 members will gather knowing that once again they wil be under intense scrutiny by the media . |
| 2 | Has it been thought necessary to make any special provision to protect the position of those minorities ? |
| 3 | Undertaken — if it were thought necessary — by expert psephological statisticians , it would doubtless confirm their extreme unlikelihood . |
| 4 | Modern means of communication , above all television , could easily overcome , if it were thought desirable , the isolation of any particular local assembly . |
| 5 | The only useable machinery left in the workshops has been wrecked … and it 's thought industrial saboteurs could be to blame . |
| 6 | It 's thought militant muslim terrorists were responsible . |
| 7 | It 's thought bad manners not to offer a visitor a night of passion after tramping round the icy far north . |
| 8 | The proposal for monitoring by silent , closed-circuit television cameras , he said , would be implemented as recommended , but the one to allow a prisoner the right to consult a solicitor every forty-eight hours would be curtailed to the extent that ‘ where it is thought necessary ’ a senior police officer would be present . |
| 9 | At some point it is thought necessary to confine them to pushchairs , later to backpacks . |
| 10 | You will probably find that much of what they offer is excellent , but that something is missing ; certain aspects of movement are neglected — it is thought necessary to know about them or try to communicate them through teaching . |
| 11 | It is thought possible that , when the Universe came into existence , there was by chance a little more matter than antimatter ; most of the matter destroyed itself by interaction with the antimatter , but that still left some over — the matter which makes up the Universe around us . |
| 12 | It is thought impolite to accuse voters , sometimes called people , of having in any way failed . |
| 13 | The company is reviewing its advertising account , held by Euro RSCG 's below-the-line subsidiary KLP , and it is thought new work may attempt to recruit new cardholders . |
| 14 | It is thought certain that Mr Ward will fight extradition proceedings , which as a result could take up to two years to bring to a conclusion . |
| 15 | If you have already made an application to the tribunal , perhaps to obviate the risk of missing a crucial time limit should negotiations collapse , the detailed terms might , if it is thought appropriate , be set out in a separate document while you withdraw your claim on form COT 4 . |
| 16 | A investment overview may be enclosed if it is thought appropriate . |
| 17 | What is more difficult to predict into the middle of the next century is the proportion of the total population that this older group will constitute , because that depends upon the birth-rate , and the latter , if past experience is anything to go on , shifts unpredictably with transient social circumstances — such as the level of unemployment or whether or not there is a war — as well as with unstable social attitudes to child-bearing and the age at which it is thought suitable for women to bear children . |
| 18 | The proposed amendment to the Articles of Association contained in Resolution 10 will enable the Company to introduce summary financial statements in 1991 or subsequently , if it is thought desirable to do so . |
| 19 | ‘ if it is thought desirable that debentures in their popular meaning may be made irredeemable , it would seem to be both absurd and inconsistent to forbid a company to make its ordinary mortgages of land also irredeemable . ’ |
| 20 | But the spokesman said : ‘ In other cases it is thought desirable that they should no longer stay in this country . ’ |
| 21 | It is thought likely that more than this have been bred and not registered , simply used as guard dogs by the booming security industry in South Africa . |
| 22 | It is thought likely that both press and TV would be central to a campaign . |
| 23 | It is thought likely that Cussons will drop ABM 's creative strategy , which featured actress Julie Walters in spoof Noel Coward-style TV ads . |
| 24 | If it is thought likely that an approach will be made from radio or TV , organise factual material and brief the Director/Chairman . |
| 25 | But while details of the police operation are being kept under wraps , it is thought likely that armed officers will be on standby . |
| 26 | When it is thought vital that members or creditors should receive notice , the Act requires them to be given notice by the company ; in relation to the general public the best that can be done is to require publication in newspapers . |
| 27 | As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor . |
| 28 | Here it is thought proper to preserve a respectful distance on both sides . |
| 29 | With most of its boards now running annual deficits , it is thought tough cost-cutting steps may be taken . |
| 30 | If they do , it is thought unwise to allow them to come and settle in this country by and large . |