Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An individual firm 's demand for labour can be thought of as a derived demand — it is derived from the consumers ' demand for the firm 's product . |
| 2 | Fear can be thought of as a force in itself which we feed - the more we feed our fears , the stronger the force becomes and the more it assails us . |
| 3 | In another analogy , our mind can be thought of as a huge tapestry in which the many episodes of life were originally isolated and there was no relationship between the parts ; but at last we must make a unified scene of our whole life . |
| 4 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 5 | At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality . |
| 6 | Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments . |
| 7 | Discussion of the benefits to the manufacturer of vertical separation and of imposing restraints on downstream firms reminds us that one way the whole issue can be thought of is as a principal-agent problem of delegation . |
| 8 | While to some extent the harmful and the helpful beings in the Chewong universe can be thought of as opposed , they do not fall into neatly discernible complementary categories . |
| 9 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 10 | Permanent consumption can be thought of as the normal or planned level of spending out of permanent income and can differ from measured consumption ( C ) by any unplanned , temporary increases or decreases in consumer spending , called transitory consumption ( CT ) . |
| 11 | One important factor to test is the assumed exogeneity of wealth , i.e. whether wealth can be thought of as being determined prior to its allocation amongst individual assets . |
| 12 | I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place . |
| 13 | Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents . |
| 14 | The price paid for a warrant can be thought of as part of the subscription price for a share which may ( or may not ) be issued at a future date . |
| 15 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 16 | In this typical example , the allosteric enzyme can be thought of as a switch . |
| 17 | An occam process can be thought of as acting in steps : a step is either a single communication or the act of successful termination . |
| 18 | This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling . |
| 19 | Any body can be thought of as consisting of lots of small masses m , and the angular momentum of such a body around a point P is obtained by combining the products mrs according to certain rules which I shall not describe . |
| 20 | Thus evolution can be thought of as a process of hill-climbing . |
| 21 | In a way , development can be thought of as a cascade , one event leading to another . |
| 22 | Entropy can be thought of as a measure of the chaos , randomness or disorder of a system . |
| 23 | If you think of it as its sound equivalent , each radar emission can be thought of as a swooping wolf-whistle . |
| 24 | Each byte that is printed in bit-image mode can be thought of as an eight-bit binary number with the digit 1 meaning ‘ print a dot here ’ and the digit 0 meaning ‘ do not print a dot here ’ . |
| 25 | Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side . |
| 26 | The circulation pattern can be thought of as made up of several contributions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 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 | Curves which are monotonic and contain only one bend can be thought of as one of the four quadrants of a circle . |
| 30 | An edge or boundary can be thought of as a point or pixel across which the reflectance value changes considerably . |