Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] can [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 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 .
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