Example sentences of "[pers pn] be supposed " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 2 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 3 | Can it be supposed that the Doomsday Book is the only sort of writing in which immortality is achieved ? |
| 4 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 5 | Can it be supposed that such a Balkanisation , extended on a world scale , would provide a stable or lasting political system ? |
| 6 | Let it be supposed that Mrs. Steed was a lady of sufficient general understanding and capability to be a suitable donee of the power of appointment . |
| 7 | On the other hand , let it be supposed that she lacked ordinary competence and capacity . |
| 8 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 9 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |