Example sentences of "can be think [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These positive actions can be thought of as good practice in risk management .
2 Norms can be thought of as unwritten rules .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Summonses are naturally utterance-initial , indeed conversation-initial ( see Schegloff , 1972a ) , and can be thought of as independent speech acts ( see Chapter 5 ) in their own right .
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