Example sentences of "[verb] of [conj] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 2 | To see a parent — someone he thinks of as being all-powerful and ever-capable — reacting in such a way must induce in the child the belief that whatever it is that is causing such terror must be dreadful indeed and that he , therefore , should be equally terrified . |
| 3 | An inn , mine host , stories in the winter evenings , fishing in the summer , introducing some of the scientific ideas of farming which he himself had heard of but was sure had not penetrated the ancient little world of this valley … |
| 4 | That power or authority is usually thought of as being political , and it often therefore takes the form of an idea of popular sovereignty — the people as the ultimate political authority . |
| 5 | It was somehow thought of as being irreverent but to members of your own family and people your own age or somebody younger than you you would use thee and thou . |
| 6 | With over 40 in each class and no supernumerary staff , the children with special learning needs were thought of as being dull and backward . |
| 7 | Whereas the emphasis of PPB could be thought of as being economic and financial , the emphasis of MBO was managerial . |
| 8 | Venetian blinds are often thought of as being suitable for kitchens but the atmosphere here is inevitably hot and sticky and the slats quickly become grimy . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the public sector institutions were thought of as being capable of maintaining the subject-specific national peer review system for themselves . |
| 10 | The company is thought of as being old fashioned . |
| 11 | Bacteria are generally thought of as being single celled . |
| 12 | Other forms of editing demand can also occur such as inserting information which was previously unavailable , or , combining two areas of information initially thought of as being independent but which are shown later to be related . |
| 13 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 14 | ‘ Red ’ , in the most basic sense , refers to a quality whose true locus is only in the perceptual fields of beings such as ourselves , but which in our most basic conceptualisations of the world we think of as being present more stably in a real world the character of which can clash with the world as immediately presented . |
| 15 | In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm . |
| 16 | To some extent , however , Parliament goes off ‘ half-cocked ’ — a Bill is conceived of as being urgent and is introduced before all its complexities have been thoroughly worked through . |
| 17 | Because of their stability , they are hard to dispose of and are persistent environmental contaminants . |