Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] be think [prep] as " in BNC.

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1 Unit trusts must buy back any units investors wish to sell , at the prevailing price , and so investors can obtain liquidity at any time , although of course if instant liquidity is required the transaction may have to be carried out at unfavourable prices , and so units should be thought of as long term investments with a deposit account held at a bank or building society for liquid funds .
2 The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words .
3 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 .
4 The tracks can be thought of as patterns of gene activity and the ball as a developing cell .
5 These positive actions can be thought of as good practice in risk management .
6 None of these five constituencies is itself anything like an authentic community , and the notion that the two County constituencies could be thought of as parts of the same community as the three City constituencies is laughable .
7 The households can be thought of as the owners of factors of production , the services of which they sell to firms in exchange for income ( in the form of wages , salaries , interest , rent and profit ) .
8 These underlying issues can be thought of as ‘ hidden voices ’ , which can block learning , or , if they become a central focus , can unleash learning and motivation to change .
9 These decision points can be thought of as nooses that pull together two or more nodes in a tree .
10 Scripts can be thought of as slot-and-filler structures , in which the slots have default values so that events can be inferred even when they are not mentioned explicitly in a text .
11 Norms can be thought of as unwritten rules .
12 Thus an account of housing development in North Shields provides us with a background to inter-war and immediate post-war developments in both owner-occupied and council housing , whereas Cramlington 's owner-occupied estates can be thought of as suburbanization produced by developer builders .
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