Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modest , charitable in his judgments , never censorious , Jim may be thought to carry tolerance almost too far ( it is time he was convicted of some venial fault ) . |
| 2 | Thus , in order to distance the law from the many preconceived cultural notions about rape , rapists and rape victims , a new terminology may be thought to be desirable . |
| 3 | That this is the case may be thought not to be chance . |
| 4 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 5 | It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created . |
| 6 | These latter words may be thought puzzling ; accounts are intended to protect creditors as well as members . |
| 7 | Modernist organizations may be thought of in terms of Weber 's typification of bureaucratized , mechanistic structures of control , as these were subsequently erected upon a fully rationalized base of divided and deskilled labour . |
| 8 | For example , in Fig. 11–10 , the new tax price for the good may be thought to look like the curve B ( instead of MC ) . |
| 9 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 10 | Unit trusts must buy back any units investors wish to sell , at the prevailing price , and so investors can obtain liquidity at any time , although of course if instant liquidity is required the transaction may have to be carried out at unfavourable prices , and so units should be thought of as long term investments with a deposit account held at a bank or building society for liquid funds . |
| 11 | Since let signifies here not intervening in some event which is already under way , it is obvious that the letting must be thought of as coinciding in time with the actualization of the other event . |
| 12 | If the VGA or SuperVGA monitor of your PC can be thought of as a car , then the graphics card should be thought of as the engine . |
| 13 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 14 | The genetic control of behaviour patterns in different species is , for all we know , so diverse that neither experiment should be thought of as particularly representative of behaviour as a whole . |
| 15 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 16 | Similarly , the suppressed sadist who exercises the inclination by verbal humiliation might be thought of as needing to dominate , while the one who by word and action emotionally breaks down the victim as a person might be destructive . |
| 17 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 18 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 19 | The wide mouth might be thought of as a kind of lawn mower for taking up vast quantities of grass to support their huge bodies . |
| 20 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 21 | I agree that the SPL ( sound pressure level ) of speakers should be given by the manufacturer , and maybe some kind of SPL/dB/wattage equation could be thought up and listed , rather like the BHP reading for motor cars . |
| 22 | Any English cookery writer who published a recipe opening with these words would be thought distinctly out of touch . |
| 23 | And now David would be thinking she wanted him to take her out again . |
| 24 | A clue to confirmation would be to think of any recent accident in this regard . |
| 25 | Using historical continuity as an argument for keeping twenty- and thirty-year-old text books would be thought absurd . |
| 26 | A watercourse viewed primarily as an effluent carrier will be thought better able to tolerate further pollution . |
| 27 | An individual firm 's demand for labour can be thought of as a derived demand — it is derived from the consumers ' demand for the firm 's product . |
| 28 | Fear can be thought of as a force in itself which we feed - the more we feed our fears , the stronger the force becomes and the more it assails us . |
| 29 | In another analogy , our mind can be thought of as a huge tapestry in which the many episodes of life were originally isolated and there was no relationship between the parts ; but at last we must make a unified scene of our whole life . |
| 30 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |