Example sentences of "be thought [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local income taxes might be thought capable of performing better against the criterion of equity , but it was argued that they would be difficult to administer in the UK , for the reasons outlined by Kay and King ( 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Now , they would be thought obscene public perception has changed and understood that animals are sentient beings and that we demean our humanity if we are cruel to them or permit cruelty . |
| 3 | It surely can not be thought coincidental that these precise geometric patterns have been set out in the Wiltshire countryside . |
| 4 | Natural philosophy should not be thought deficient because we are ignorant of the ultimate causes of the characteristic properties and regular behaviour of things . |
| 5 | First , where the conduct would not be thought indecent by any right-minded observer , indecent assault could not be committed . |
| 6 | To do so would be thought ineffective . |
| 7 | It may be thought unreasonable that the legislation should both refuse to give credit for repayments and charge renewed borrowings as if they were a first-time borrowing . |
| 8 | Not that he has any ambitions to be thought high-brow . |
| 9 | It is further submitted that , as Parliament has intervened by the Act of 1976 in the matter of pre-natal injuries to unborn children , it should be left to Parliament to effect any further change in the law that may be thought necessary or to develop the law from where it was left by the Divisional Court in Ireland in Walker 's case . |
| 10 | Accordingly , it might no longer be thought necessary to distinguish marital from non-marital rape in the way suggested in the Working Paper since the public and family interest could be taken into account by the Crown Prosecutor with guidance from the Director . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Using historical continuity as an argument for keeping twenty- and thirty-year-old text books would be thought absurd . |
| 13 | There seemed to be nothing else nowadays , and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular . |
| 14 | In some cultures , critical analysis of texts is relatively unknown and may , indeed , be thought offensive . |
| 15 | She wondered , however , whether the philosophy of matching services closely to needs might eventually mean that existing residents who were relatively independent might be thought unsuitable for Mencap 's homes . |
| 16 | But when a horse crashes into a fence in an attempt to escape a hump-backed monster ( in reality , his owner carrying a sack of oats ) , small wonder that he is liable to be thought stupid . |
| 17 | Alas , in most gardens , especially suburban , most of the Old and shrub roses will hardly be thought suitable ( size alone rules them out ) but that is not to say all will be unsuitable , any more than all H.T.s and Floribundas are really suitable . |
| 18 | It might be thought reasonable to treat all cases of NSU so diagnosed when they initially present to the clinic as if they had a sexually transmitted disease and prescribe appropriate antibiotics , and , indeed , this is common practice in most clinics . |
| 19 | ‘ It 'll be thought strange . |
| 20 | He informs Fleming that he had had to put them to work elsewhere and hopes that it will not be thought strange that the men are taken away . |
| 21 | The same thing applies to concepts or ways of discussion which may be thought normal or " crude " according only to personal feeling . |
| 22 | It may be thought odd that no large bronze double-axes were found at Knossos or Phaistos , but this is probably because the sites were ransacked in antiquity and plundered of their usable and precious metal objects . |
| 23 | It might be thought odd that the desperately poor spent hard-earned pence on providing for a ceremony they would never see . |
| 24 | ( Not to be thought ridiculous ) |
| 25 | It dissolved barriers , broke down prejudices and significantly increased the experience that could properly be thought appropriate in a musico-theatrical work . |
| 26 | Thirdly , at a less general level , the particular model of the curriculum represented by the battery of tests may , or may not , be thought appropriate . |
| 27 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 28 | It might therefore be thought advantageous to limit the class of lexical units to these . |
| 29 | Are we meant to take it seriously ? premature babies are routinely taken from their mothers on the maternity ward into intensive care , or sterile areas , often for long periods and although their mothers might miss them , it would be thought sentimental to claim the opposite . |
| 30 | Wilson was immediately worried that the rooms she had ready would not be thought adequate , that indeed she did not know if she herself thought they were adequate , and that she would be unable to prepare meals in her feeble condition , but Miss Blagden laid to rest all her anxieties . |