Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [modal v] [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Value for money can be thought of as consisting of three elements : economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 2 | An individual firm 's demand for labour can be thought of as a derived demand — it is derived from the consumers ' demand for the firm 's product . |
| 3 | Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments . |
| 4 | This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling . |
| 5 | To use yet another metaphor , moulding of form can be thought of as metalworking ; patterning like painting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A clue to confirmation would be to think of any recent accident in this regard . |
| 8 | This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters . |
| 9 | 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 . |