Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] of as [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lay person 's view , and in the view of some professional linguists , the norms of language are associated with notions of standardization and ‘ correctness ’ or with hierarchical dimensions of social structure ( or all of these ) , and they are usually felt to be institutional : that is , they are thought of as being prescribed by authority through the writing system , the educational system and other agencies ( for a relevant discussion , see J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ . |
| 5 | Both of them can be thought of as being exercised in varying degrees , so that observation of people can be carried out with varying degrees of participation and varying degrees of control . |
| 6 | Here reading aloud is accomplished by retrieval of the information , which is thought of as being stored as an entry in an internal dictionary or ‘ mental lexicon ’ . |