Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] think [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's something which really should be thought about continuously er and carried on . |
| 2 | Idea the participant observer is virtually a spy , since to be accepted completely in a particular capacity within a group the observer should be thought of as actually being in nothing but that capacity . |
| 3 | The genetic control of behaviour patterns in different species is , for all we know , so diverse that neither experiment should be thought of as particularly representative of behaviour as a whole . |
| 4 | The bat should be thought of as analogous to the police radar trapping instrument , not to the person who designed that instrument . |
| 5 | It must be thought of as just one of the tools available to business today for managing the ever increasing volumes of information . |
| 6 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 7 | More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging . |
| 8 | Thus , as Romaine points out , the following utterances might be thought of as functionally equivalent , in that they have the same communicative purpose , even though the surface syntactic forms are not necessarily related : |
| 9 | It might be thought of as over-reacting but the development of local monopolies and cartels is just conceivable . |
| 10 | It might be thought of as repressive but they actually enjoy it . |
| 11 | But hold on , you could be thinking by now , do n't impugn all British manhood just because a few sexually ( or excrementally ) repressed junior accountants get a kick out of shag jokes . |
| 12 | He has pointed out , too , that if life is considered in this light , then some clays could be thought of as alive . |
| 13 | It is tempting to point , as a common feature of enterprises such as these , to the fact that they are ‘ single-function ’ entities ( in contrast to central government and agencies of horizontal devolution which may be thought of as multi-function ) . |
| 14 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 15 | The lexical items in a taxonomy may be thought of as corresponding to classes of things in the extra-linguistic world . |
| 16 | Apart from these tensional effects , most of Mesozoic times over most of Europe may be thought of as what I have called the " long quiet episode " . |
| 17 | The second parenthetical expression on the right-hand side of ( 9–12 ) may be thought of as ex ante expected lifetime income . |
| 18 | Most people Ernie 's age would be thinking of more sedate exercise ; WALKING the dogs perhaps , but this is far more exciting . |
| 19 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |
| 20 | The latter can be thought of either as something like a pointer moving across a scale to a mark labelled " here " , or ultimately as a conscious observer looking at such a pointer and saying " By Jove , the electron 's here " on this occasion . |
| 21 | Other ‘ flags ’ can be thought of as developing within one part of the French flag . |
| 22 | Curves which are monotonic and contain only one bend can be thought of as one of the four quadrants of a circle . |
| 23 | Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents . |
| 24 | These can be thought of as five somewhat different shapes , but it must be remembered that when people are talking they will be rapidly moving shapes . |
| 25 | These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 . |
| 26 | Indeed , if the state can be thought of as acting as a single shareholder then it will be in a more powerful position vis-a-vis management than are shareholders of most private companies . |
| 27 | For many purposes polymers can be thought of as entirely one-dimensional that is , as mathematical lines . |
| 28 | The division of labour in modern Britain is such that these three major segments of social life can be thought of as distinct and virtually autonomous sub-systems , each with its own set of specialized self-perpetuating roles ministers , " politicians " , civil servants , judges , lawyers , policemen , bishops , clergy — all of which are open , at least in theory , to any individual of appropriate age , sex , and education who chooses to make himself a candidate . |
| 29 | The molecules can be thought of as little billiard balls continually colliding with each other and bouncing off the walls of the box . |
| 30 | If there are two kinds of small molecule in the chain , the two can be thought of as 1 and 0 respectively , and immediately any amount of information , of any kind , can be stored , provided only that the chain is long enough . |