Example sentences of "[be] consider [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this factor which may be significant ; otherwise the act of breaking and defacement , common to most of the sculptured stones , may have been considered effective in destroying the pagan influence . |
| 2 | That would have been considered vulgar . |
| 3 | The committee appointed to enquire into the copper trade and mining ( 1799 ) , said in their report that copper bolts had never been considered strong enough , and that the practice of copper bottoming was stopped by about 1750 , as a result of the losses , and the fact that at one time a third of the navy was in dock under repair . |
| 4 | ‘ Like Richard , ’ he said , ‘ I 've always been considered precocious too . ’ |
| 5 | What follows is a consideration of a few vital food elements outlining their importance to the health of older people , and looking at the effect that dietary deficiency might have on what have hitherto been considered normal factors in the ageing process . |
| 6 | Osteostracans ( cephalaspids ) have long been considered close relatives of lampreys despite a total difference in overall body shape . |
| 7 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 8 | Butler gave what have often been considered decisive arguments against the doctrine of psychological hedonism . |
| 9 | The alternative of a directly managed service with a bureaucratic chain from Whitehall to Whitehaven has not been considered appropriate , although the merits of the interposition of members between tiers of management have not been universally accepted in the NHS . |
| 10 | Interestingly , no similar safeguard has yet been considered appropriate for the video industry under the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984 . |
| 11 | According to the BMJ article , the drug had been considered appropriate in some hospitals for occasional use on children . |
| 12 | While 66 per cent of fir trees in 27 plots established in 1980 had been considered healthy , by 1982 just 1 per cent remained so . |
| 13 | With many fewer people , ideas that had been considered impossible , such as combinations of major functions , were now implemented successfully . |
| 14 | In her first school she had been considered outstanding at maths , and had obtained six grade As in her nine O levels . |
| 15 | Very disappointed , I went to the Headmistress to ask why I had not been considered suitable . |
| 16 | Up to this time , Leith had not been considered suitable for some of the larger excursion steamers . |
| 17 | Even ten years ago the idea that English-speaking children should be educated completely in a foreign language for every subject , including science , without actual specific prior tuition or without reinforcement at home , would have been considered strange to say the least . |
| 18 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 19 | Fishbase is so simple to operate that no documentation file has been considered necessary . |
| 20 | In the case of hire purchase contracts , the supply of documentation including a log book or registration document , has been considered necessary ( Bentworth Finance Ltd v Lubert [ 1968 ] 1 QB 680 ) . |
| 21 | DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game . |
| 22 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 23 | All patients had been considered unsuitable for surgery either due to incurable disease ( documented distal metastases or advanced locoregional disease ) , or high surgical risk such as advanced age or severe cardiorespiratory disease ; 80% were tertiary referrals . |
| 24 | For the moment , though , a certain room for manoeuvre has been considered acceptable , and has probably even been increased . |
| 25 | Extremely profitable multinational companies sell size 10 clothes along with diets , cosmetics , ‘ Dallas ’ , beauty contests , gyms and junk food to First Nation/Third World cultures , where fat has been considered beautiful and healthy . |
| 26 | Whether or not that is the case , the problem here is not that Jesus was a man , but that this man has been considered unique , symbolic of God , God Himself- or whatever else may be the case within Christianity . |
| 27 | Another mechanism which has previously been considered important is the repression of emotional events ( Freud , 1915/1957 ) , although there is some support for such an effect in the long term studies of personal memories discussed later , repression as a mechanism has received relatively little attention in the recent literature in cognitive psychology . |
| 28 | Socioeconomic status has been considered important because miners were of social class V earlier this century and this class has a 50% excess for gastric cancer compared with the higher social classes . |
| 29 | I joined the local ARP Services , and as my husband had not been considered fit for Navy service yet , he did too , unofficially of course . |
| 30 | The master of the college , Professor Morris , had issued a tetchy statement to the effect that , while it had been considered advisable to seek police assistance , there was at present no cause for alarm . |