Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm worried that the whole scene will be looked at as women who are abused screaming at patriarchy , as if the uniting force is that they 're victims . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the spoons are still disappearing — apparently they are now sought after as souvenirs . |
| 3 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 4 | On the other hand , certain of our major retailers ( e.g. Marks and Spencer ) are commonly thought of as models of efficiency , and their ‘ own brands ’ command widespread respect — the typical consumer does not think twice about which factory or by whom they are made . |
| 5 | The notions of system and homology are gone ; neither literature in general nor individual texts are thought of as systems , and consequently analogies with linguistic structures do not apply . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Similarly , trade unions are thought of as institutions whose objectives and practices are fundamentally opposed to the public interest . |
| 8 | People said at the time that the war had been fought for the children , for a better future , and the 1950s represent a watershed in the historical process by which children have come to be thought of as repositories of hope , and objects of desire . |
| 9 | The tracks can be thought of as patterns of gene activity and the ball as a developing cell . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the simplest terms , these can be thought of as particles which at the moment do not in fact exist — but one day might . |
| 12 | In string theories , what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string , like waves on a vibrating kite string . |
| 13 | It is appropriate to add a few words at this point that might help avert the possibility of becoming involved in any extensive debate about whether associative changes of the sort described here should really be thought of as instances of perceptual learning , producing changes in the perceived similarity of the stimuli . |
| 14 | Many people in the black community , people that I had thought of as friends , said to me that I should not have worn the flag that night . |
| 15 | Cattle eat grass , and might therefore be thought of as enemies of grass . |
| 16 | Even clothes washing and bed-making , still ordinarily thought of as women 's jobs , were frequently mentioned by husbands as things they did as well . |
| 17 | Rights are thought of as things which are possessed , enjoyed , exercised , yielded up , foregone , etc . |
| 18 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That dinosaurs , as a sub-order of the archosaurs , are traditionally thought of as reptiles is the legacy of the great nineteenth-century anatomist Richard Owen . |
| 21 | In very broad terms these may be thought of as divisions based on social class . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | These decision points can be thought of as nooses that pull together two or more nodes in a tree . |
| 24 | But the trick was to think of these properties as mappable ; that is , capable of being thought of as dimensions in space . |
| 25 | Of that , around £60m of school purchasing was on ‘ trade ’ as opposed to text books , or ‘ what in other terms is thought of as children 's and teenage publishing ’ . |
| 26 | Although he does not say so explicitly , this could mean that they were thought of as Trojans . |
| 27 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters . |
| 30 | Instead they stayed talking until the small hours , telling me of the strokes they 'd pulled and the mischief they 'd got into as kids — right under my unsuspecting nose ! |