Example sentences of "[subord] [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | National daily and Sunday papers dominated British newspaper reading more recently than might be thought . |
| 2 | But what is less often pointed out is that Anselm in The Proslogion also defines God as ‘ greater than can be thought to exist ’ . |
| 3 | Sir : The internal market advocated by the Government for the NHS ( in particular for the hospitals ) may not be as new an idea as may be thought . |
| 4 | That it be referred to the same Meeting to open a voluntary subscription to forward such means as may be thought most likely to promote the study of scientific Farriery … ’ . |
| 5 | ( q ) To remunerate any person , firm or company rendering services to the Company either by cash payment or by the allotment to him or them of shares or other securities of the Company credited as paid up in full or otherwise as may be thought expedient . |
| 6 | ( q ) To remunerate any person , firm or company rendering services to the Company either by cash payment or by the allotment to him or them of shares or other securities of the Company credited as paid up in full or otherwise as may be thought expedient . |
| 7 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 8 | The southern aspect is dominated by Pegasus , which is large but not so bright as might be thought from its aspect on the maps . |
| 9 | However , the implications of this are not as great as might be thought . |
| 10 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 11 | Non-logical stimuli : the first step here is to list as many aspects as can be thought of connected with the problem situation and to consider a completely irrelevant , unconnected object and to see how many ways that the object could affect the situation . |