Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the infrequency with which it is celebrated , this may be thought to be a reaction against the daily sacrifice of the Mass and the emphasis that grace comes dear and difficult not cheap and daily . |
| 2 | This may be thought to be the legal way to control force . |
| 3 | This may be thought scarcely auspicious . |
| 4 | This may be thought to give some substance to the notion of representation , which otherwise remains remarkably vague and undemanding in the Burkean version . |
| 5 | Secondly , it will be examined why , granted the profit maximisation objective , the profits should accrue to the shareholders , as opposed , for example , to the employees : if considerations of efficiency underscore the shareholders ' current position of preeminence , then this may be thought to provide a justificatory foundation for shareholder rights within a public interest framework . |
| 6 | In a sense this may be thought to contradict what I said in chapter 1 , where the emphasis was on the evident synchroneity of particular deposits , particularly carbonates . |
| 7 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 8 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 9 | Any estate owner who achieved this might be thought to have made a notable bargain . |
| 10 | The merit of separate qualified defences is that they focus the evidence and the legal argument , giving the jury ( in contested cases ) an opportunity to assess the defence , and giving the judge fairly precise guidance on the basis for sentencing : this might be thought to ensure that each defendant is dealt with more fairly , but the risk of confusing the jury in a contested case might tend to erode that protection . |
| 11 | While this might be thought to have a major impact , the effects would have been lessened if the cremating was carried out at dispersed homes . |
| 12 | This might be thought to throw into disarray our grounds for specifying what animals see , hear , and otherwise sense . |
| 13 | Sir Brynmor Jones said jocularly : " The teacher who can be replaced by a teaching machine or any audio-visual aid deserves to be ( 1968 : 281 ) and this might be thought also to be true of replacement by ancillaries . |
| 14 | There is no distinct technology of advertising , but this could be thought an arbitrary objection , especially when the boundaries between media technologies that were quite sharp in the 1940s — between print and photography , or film and TV , for example — were dissolving in the 1980s . |
| 15 | This can be thought of as a probability measure that the word token in question resulted from a misspelling of a dictionary word . |
| 16 | This can be thought of as comprising the following clauses : Roger has a dog The dog is black It is called Ben These can be combined in various ways which would " score " in a count of dependent clauses , e.g. : Roger has a dog , Ben , who is black , Roger has a black dog , who is called Ben , while the initial version does not . |
| 17 | This can be thought of as entering the three main two-dimensional views ( front , side and plan ) into the space to lie either on the axis or on the surface of the local space brick ( see Figure 3.6 ) . |
| 18 | This can be thought of as an investment — an expenditure today for which there is hoped to be a return in future years in the form of a lowering in the costs of production ( for a process invention ) . |