Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] think of as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the inability to trace records of certain interviews and the fact that other important papers were not presented at previous hearings of this matter , the fire in the building where the former South Midland Area 's archives were temporarily housed pending re-organisation was particularly unfortunate and can only be thought of as an unhappy coincidence . |
| 2 | Although sums of money are represented as decimal numbers , they can easily be thought of as pounds and pence , or pence alone : the idea of decimals can therefore be avoided . |
| 3 | Plato can reasonably be thought of as the most radically and implacably anti-democratic of all political philosophers . |
| 4 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 5 | What Irigaray describes as mimétisme can also be thought of as parody . |
| 6 | Orcs and Savage Orcs are good fighting troops and can therefore be thought of as core units , but they can also be used as quality supporting troops if armed with missile weapons . |
| 7 | A standard method for searching any kind of database ( and a lexicon with various pieces of additional information can certainly be thought of as a database ) on a key other than the primary one ( the primary key for a lexicon is the word itself ) is by using inverted list structures ( Claybrook , 1983 ; Date , 1986 ) . |