Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the article is tainted by what seems to be a desire to inflict damage on Levi 's reputation , of a kind which may be thought to serve the ideological tendency of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 2 | And there must be a serious question mark against the massive powers acquired by the holder of the office of Secretary of State , which may be thought less than healthy in a democracy normally dependent on a system of checks and balances . |
| 3 | It is tempting to point , as a common feature of enterprises such as these , to the fact that they are ‘ single-function ’ entities ( in contrast to central government and agencies of horizontal devolution which may be thought of as multi-function ) . |
| 4 | This sort of moral principle , which may be thought to have the backing of international Opinion , and therefore be part of the positive morality of the international community , can readily be dubbed part of natural law , that is , of binding rules of universal application , and at the same time regarded as general principles of international law . |
| 5 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 6 | It does not include problems which may be thought of as on the fringe of sexual considerations such as unmarried motherhood , neurotic guilt about sex or non-sexual marital dissonance , although all of these may in themselves stimulate sexual difficulty . |
| 7 | The same thing applies to concepts or ways of discussion which may be thought normal or " crude " according only to personal feeling . |
| 8 | The second , which may be thought of as the ‘ efficient markets ’ theory , is called the ‘ substitution hypothesis ’ . |
| 9 | It consists of a set of vertices , which may be thought of as marking off temporal units along the x axis , and a set of edges linking these vertices . |
| 10 | A parameter entity is an SGML construct which may be thought of in simple terms as like a variable declaration in a programming language : the effect of using them here is that each base tag set can provide its own specific definition for the constituents of texts , which can , moreover be modified by the user . |
| 11 | More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging . |
| 12 | Librarians recognize the need for an appropriate balance to be maintained within the materials which they make available to reflect differing extremes or shades of opinion on matters which might be thought to be contentious . |
| 13 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be thought to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 14 | ’ — A term which might be thought by some to overstate our relationship , ’ he said finally , and was pleased to observe that his tone did not waver . |
| 15 | The first three of these are clearly concerned with the treatment of third-country nationals , and it is therefore of interest to note that the question of visa policy , which might be thought to be implicit in the second and third objectives mentioned above will fall within the scope of Community competence by virtue of the new Article 100C of the EEC Treaty introduced by the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 16 | Nevertheless there are incidental details in Gregory 's account which might be thought to suggest that some , if not all , of these atrocities are rightly placed ; for instance Gregory states that Clovis had Chararic tonsured , which , if true , implies that the Merovingian himself had already been converted . |
| 17 | In these discussions the prudent expert will avoid conduct which might be thought to cast doubt on his partiality . |
| 18 | Third , there may be rules that do not directly sanction that which might arguably constitute a breach of fiduciary obligation , but which might be thought to assume its legitimacy . |
| 19 | Other people may settle down happily : the noise means a safe background , a train on its way — eating the miles , with a rhythm and vibration which could be thought of as a loud , comforting lullaby . |
| 20 | What they share , despite their differences , is an insistence that there is no ‘ original ’ wholeness or unity in the self , nor a ‘ real self ’ which can be thought of as in some way underlying the self of everyday life . |
| 21 | It does not suit professional courses , such as those in medicine , law , engineering or business studies which can be thought of as composite subjects , and which therefore tend to have few external ancillary courses . |
| 22 | Its design to avoid significant loading at the output or input has already been considered in section 3.7 for the special case of a direct input , which can be thought of as a sinusoidal input of zero frequency , but the discussion and conclusions reached apply equally well whatever the time dependence of the input signal . |
| 23 | which can be thought of as a temporary , unexpected rise or fall in income ( for example , an unexpected increase in income resulting from a win at the races , or a temporary fall in income resulting from a short period of unemployment ) . |
| 24 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 25 | Because I 'm not just interested in society , which can be thought of in a kind of abstract fashion , but I 'm very much interested in the expressions in ordinary ways of life , in the arts , in literature , in music , of the kind of society that you 've got . |
| 26 | Whatever may be thought of this — I have softened it in translation — there can be no denying its intense urgency and power . |
| 27 | What may be thought surprising is the absence of Celtic deities which are so well represented in stone sculpture and reliefs , especially in the west . |
| 28 | One is the formal , departmental structure ( see Figure 5.1 ) which recognizes the various specialisms within the business and leads to what may be thought of as an ‘ orthodox ’ , function-based management structure . |
| 29 | In practice , moreover , treatments for such patients tend to be chosen empirically and worked through on a trial and error basis , whatever might be thought to be the underlying pathophysiology . |
| 30 | To illustrate , I will take what might be thought to be an example posing relatively few problems — the case of the Loch Ness monster . |