Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dissolved barriers , broke down prejudices and significantly increased the experience that could properly be thought appropriate in a musico-theatrical work . |
| 2 | the gay male parody of a certain femininity , which , as others have argued , may itself be an elaborate social construct , is both a way of giving vent to the hostility toward women that probably afflicts every male ( and which male heterosexuals have of course expressed in infinitely nastier and more effective ways ) and could paradoxically be thought of as helping to deconstruct that image for women themselves … |
| 3 | However , thanks to the efforts of Lord Dainton , and his rapport with Mrs Thatcher , whose tutor he was at Oxford , we are to get the New Library that in Bentley 's day could not be thought of , though the Victorians created an ideal solution for their day . |
| 4 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 5 | The Exodus narrative , identifying the God of Israel as the worker of wonders such as those which led Pharoah to release the Israelites from Egypt , could easily be thought of as referring to one god among many . |
| 6 | In fact , it could easily be thought that increased alcohol consumption could result just in the increased incidence of recurrent pancreatitis . |
| 7 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
| 8 | Here " head " ( , ) and " pate " ( ) are the pair , and are perhaps completely synonymous ( though the latter could reasonably be thought more specific or " concrete " than the former ) . |
| 9 | A trick , certainly ; in a sense too , a trick which results in a form of self-incrimination ; but not one which could reasonably be thought to involve unfairness . |
| 10 | If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ . |
| 11 | And yet Stewart 's small wandering world could well be thought the richer of the two environments . |