Example sentences of "[noun] may [be] think [prep] as " in BNC.

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1 geographical areas , e.g. the North and South of England may be thought of as separate markets for many products ;
2 The profile may be thought of as a set of fake hybridisations with the set of M mapped probes and the probe/contig , and consequently may be displayed using show .
3 The science and art of maintaining , breeding and displaying wild animals successfully in captivity may be thought of as something akin to gardeners with green fingers .
4 To say that the stance is one of knowing does not necessarily imply a belief in ‘ objectivity ’ ; the process may be thought of as a hermeneutic , interpretative one in which objective knowledge is not possible .
5 At the higher values of the Richardson number , the turbulence may be thought of as random superposition of internal waves ( Section 15.4 ) .
6 A CHROMOSOME may be thought of as DNA coated with a protein .
7 A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder .
8 Although the Macintosh may be thought of as a ‘ small ’ computer , compared with the workstations installed by Atex and the like , it offers an exceptional degree of flexibility and considerable price advantages .
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