Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [be] think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , there is nothing here that would be thought of value in the shining land beyond the golden river of Frith . |
| 2 | ( Ullman 's work is thus closer to the spirit of Kant , and may be thought of as an attempt to articulate the intuitions and categories of space which structure and give meaning to the input stimulus . ) |
| 3 | In a biosensor , the biolayer is a true material component in the device , and can be thought of as an intelligent biomaterial . |
| 4 | The latter is more efficient and can be thought of by analogy with the translation of , say , a whole poem in English by a whole poem in Chinese ( perhaps by pound ) , with no line-to-line correspondence , but only an overall ‘ sameness of meaning or function ’ ; whereas , on an ‘ interpretation ’ view , a Chinese poem would be constructed by a line-by-line translation of the English one . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | However , description is not a privileged area of objective study , and the presentation of socio-cultural conditions of other societies can not be viewed as a final explanation of other institutions and values , but must be thought of as part of the observer 's reconstruction of their own understanding of the institutions and values . |
| 7 | Non-logical stimuli : the first step here is to list as many aspects as can be thought of connected with the problem situation and to consider a completely irrelevant , unconnected object and to see how many ways that the object could affect the situation . |