Example sentences of "[be] considered " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 2 | I , myself , am considered a little eccentric . |
| 3 | I have frequented pool-rooms for over twenty years , and at one pool-room game , n three-cushion billiards , am considered a far better than average player . ’ |
| 4 | Since ancient times , the rowan tree has been considered a scourge to witches . |
| 5 | However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost . |
| 6 | Reopening of the tunnel , which had last seen regular passenger services in 1916 and goods traffic in 1969 , had been considered in the London Rail Study in 1974 but rejected because the cost ( including a new interchange station at West Hampstead ) had been estimated at £30million . |
| 7 | A lot of the points discussed had also been considered by the cricket committee and we shall now make a thorough investigation . ’ |
| 8 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 9 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 10 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 11 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |
| 12 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 13 | The description and demonstration of the working of such systems has always been considered a major advance in anthropological theory and is usually traced to the publication in 1940 of African Political Systems by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard with their respective discussions of the Tallensi of West Africa and the Nuer of East Africa . |
| 14 | The dowry system has sometimes been considered as an effect of the sexual division of labour where , although women do some of the heaviest work ( servicing labour and producing it ) , these roles are considered less important than those of men . |
| 15 | The limits of what had formerly been considered the proper role of the state had changed . |
| 16 | It has been considered that the simultaneous presence of ultradian and daily rhythms suggests that they are related in some way and possibly all come from the same body clock . |
| 17 | Delay was nowadays , perhaps too often , a feature in both civil and criminal cases and had been considered by courts countless times . |
| 18 | Since the sixties , rock and pop have been considered a stamping and breeding ground for burgeoning leftist/liberal sensibilities , a place where dissent is felt and upsurges occur . |
| 19 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 20 | I never remember her dressed other than what in those days would have been considered ‘ ladylike ’ , with a touch of white at the high neck , and her hair drawn back , which suited her hairline and the shape of her head . |
| 21 | These policies even contemplated the nationalization of industry , in rather more detail than had ever been considered by the Labour Party . |
| 22 | The arguments in favour of some seven qualified defences have been considered above . |
| 23 | Widows , the only social position that a traditional society could envisage for a husbandless adult woman , have always been considered as inauspicious and undesirable people . |
| 24 | Life must go on , they intimated , while stressing that the stadium would never have been considered for a semi-final involving Liverpool or Nottingham Forest . |
| 25 | The announcement lifts the threat of a boycott of the event from all of the British entrants , which was to have been considered by the British Wheelchair Racing Association today . |
| 26 | This format of radio and newspaper features has also been considered for Gaelic Literacy and for a horticulture course , with the materials to be printed by offset-litho . |
| 27 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 28 | However , its contents have not yet been revealed in any detail , neither has the valuable Abridgement been considered . |
| 29 | While 66 per cent of fir trees in 27 plots established in 1980 had been considered healthy , by 1982 just 1 per cent remained so . |
| 30 | This group of fish was also fully fledged in the Devonian , and this is of particular significance because the origin of all land vertebrates has been considered as lying within a species of this group . |