Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 2 | It may be thought that the same verdict applies to the third principle as well . |
| 3 | It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public . |
| 4 | For example , it may be thought that a computer programmer will extract some kind of revenge by introducing a logic bomb into the computer system . |
| 5 | So far we have considered three ways of sampling directly from a given population , but it may be thought that this direct method has dangers attached . |
| 6 | On death-beds it may be thought that a soon-to-be-deceased settlor is susceptible to giving either involuntary nods or nods to propositions imperfectly understood , or both . |
| 7 | At a first glance , it may be thought that methods for script and speech recognition would be the same , because both are attempting to process natural language . |
| 8 | It may be thought that a body like the National Trust with a well-defined statutory purpose to preserve places of natural beauty or historic interest in perpetuity for the benefit of the nation , is not affected by changing public opinion or fears for the global environment . |
| 9 | It may be thought that there are three categories in which the sexual aspects of work with children arise : |
| 10 | It may be thought that in 8 we have an equation which indicates ( wrongly ) that — at is a semantic constituent : |
| 11 | It may be thought that in reading ( ii ) , pencil should be taken to refer only to the core of the pencil . |
| 12 | It may be thought that the direction on burden is implicit in that on standard . |
| 13 | Thus , it may be thought that the term rape conveys the full horror of the event . |
| 14 | It may be thought that the highest-scoring universities in this list attract a higher than average proportion of indigenous students with local area research interests , but examination of the names of thesis authors from Strathclyde and Dundee universities , and confirmatory personal communications with the relevant departments , suggest that many of their students are not of local origin , but have come to the universities from overseas . |
| 15 | For many it may be thought that what the market gives you is both fair and rightly yours . |
| 16 | Values will tend to follow the development plans , and land which acquires a high development value will normally be land on which development will be permitted ; but there will be exceptions and it may be thought that to limit compensation in these cases will inflict hardship on owners who are refused permission to develop or whose land is bought compulsorily . |
| 17 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |
| 18 | It might be thought that the subject 's apprehension of his own brain is more immediate and more holistic than any external knowledge , however complete , and that this explains the experiential difference between the two kinds of knowledge . |
| 19 | In the case of Jesus it might be thought that he represents the management , not the workers . |
| 20 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 21 | It might be thought that the actor 's art also reflects the continual struggle between participants in a social situation to share their private worlds through public media of language and gesture , what Arthur Brittan ( 1973 ) refers to as ‘ negotiation of meaning ’ . |
| 22 | It might be thought that those seeking detailed information about a particular school should show a special reason for wanting it , but there is no suggestion in any of the Regulations that availability of the information should be limited . |
| 23 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 24 | It might be thought that a larger population would create a larger labour force and market , thereby increasing the level of economic welfare in LDCs ; however , it is essential for other resources ( land , capital and enterprise ) to be available also to generate income and wealth through productive enterprise . |
| 25 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 26 | Although it is easy to appreciate that the polymer must be sufficiently wettable to sustain a coherent layer of tear fluid , it might be thought that all problems associated with wettability would be overcome by the presence of water in the material . |
| 27 | It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened . |
| 28 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |
| 29 | Although it might be thought that it would be difficult to capture the phenomenon of union growth across a number of countries on the basis of a single behavioural equation of this kind without making allowances for additional socio-political factors , or resorting to ad hoc explanations for individual countries , in fact the model performs surprisingly well . |
| 30 | It might be thought that this was essentially a matter for the internal law of State A , the forum State . |