Example sentences of "[pron] can be [vb pp] of as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not suit professional courses , such as those in medicine , law , engineering or business studies which can be thought of as composite subjects , and which therefore tend to have few external ancillary courses . |
| 2 | Its design to avoid significant loading at the output or input has already been considered in section 3.7 for the special case of a direct input , which can be thought of as a sinusoidal input of zero frequency , but the discussion and conclusions reached apply equally well whatever the time dependence of the input signal . |
| 3 | which can be thought of as a temporary , unexpected rise or fall in income ( for example , an unexpected increase in income resulting from a win at the races , or a temporary fall in income resulting from a short period of unemployment ) . |
| 4 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 5 | A great-circle route is an arc of a circle centred upon the centre of the Earth and passing through the start and end point of the journey ; the great circle itself can be thought of as a circular section through the Earth and passing through the Earth 's centre . |
| 6 | Each one can be thought of as a chemical factory which , in the course of delivering its primary product of usable energy , processes more than 700 different chemical substances , in long , interweaving assembly-lines strung out along the surface of its intricately folded internal membranes . |
| 7 | This was a very hot body , spewing its heat and gases copiously into space : it can be thought of as a planet-sized erupting volcano . |
| 8 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 9 | It can be thought of as a kind of organisational ‘ cement ’ . |
| 10 | In a sense it can be thought of as a direction of time that is at right angles to real time . |