Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [be] think [prep] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 To use yet another metaphor , moulding of form can be thought of as metalworking ; patterning like painting .
32 The residuals from the fitted line can be thought of as values for a variable which have been adjusted to take the explanatory variable into account .
33 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 .
34 It was n't said that there were cells that actually corresponded to those features , not but nonetheless the output from the system could be thought of as a feature detection system .
35 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 .
36 These , all these things , are directed , as says , to the ego , and the ego can be thought of as a decision making agency .
37 Alternatively , the structure can be thought of as a body-centred cubic arrangement with the cations occupying the body-centre positions .
38 If the VGA or SuperVGA monitor of your PC can be thought of as a car , then the graphics card should be thought of as the engine .
39 Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance .
40 Permanent income can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the existing stock of both ‘ human ’ and ‘ non-human ’ wealth over a long period of time .
41 It revealed that an electron orbiting around the nucleus could be thought of as a wave , with a wave-length that depended on its velocity .
42 The slope can be thought of as a numerical expression of the strength of causal effect of one variable on another .
43 Alternatively , a polymer solution can be thought of as a system formed by the condensation of solvent into a polymer .
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