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 . |