Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [modal v] [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An edge or boundary can be thought of as a point or pixel across which the reflectance value changes considerably . |
| 2 | Although the students had few problems in discerning a variety of viable strategies for presenting new lexis in such a way that learners might be thought to be able to perceive its meaning without the intervention of English , the areas of structure and discourse proved less tractable . |
| 3 | What they tend to overlook is that the very idea that kinship can be thought of as a dimension of the total society , analogous to , yet quite distinct from , both " economics " and " politics " , is an invention of the anthropologists themselves . |
| 4 | We have shown that polynomials can be thought of in the way we have always thought of them , secure in the knowledge that uncomfortable questions about x can be circumvented . |
| 5 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 6 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |
| 7 | Both the absence , and recent emergence , of disability arts and culture might be thought of as a mirror reflecting the current status of this tension between passive and active roles . |
| 8 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |
| 9 | One important factor to test is the assumed exogeneity of wealth , i.e. whether wealth can be thought of as being determined prior to its allocation amongst individual assets . |
| 10 | The number systems we use as yardsticks should be thought of as being made not of wood but of elastic which can be stretched or shrunk to our convenience . |