Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] thought [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 2 | They were younger than she had expected and seemed shy and reticent , emphasising frequently , all the way up the stairs , that they wanted only a bolt-hole and must not be thought of as real boarders . |
| 3 | In Foucault 's work ‘ sexuality ’ is seen as an historical apparatus , and ‘ sex ’ is a ‘ complex idea that was formed within the deployment of sexuality ’ : 'Sexuality must not be thought of as a kind of natural given which power tries to hold in check , or as an obscure domain which knowledge gradually tries to uncover . |
| 4 | Such interconnection between the two sectors , primary and secondary , should not be thought of as a burden . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . " |
| 7 | The 1980s might usefully be thought of as the ‘ decade of regulatory reform ’ . |
| 8 | Cattle eat grass , and might therefore be thought of as enemies of grass . |
| 9 | Er opposed to God and of which may well be thought of as incarnating itself in those men in every generation , who have sin to be the blatant opponents of God . |
| 10 | Of course , only the district councils would normally be thought of as ‘ local government ’ . |
| 11 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 12 | Hart in his book Law , Liberty and Morality ( 1963 ) argued that the law was not and ought not to be a tool for ‘ the enforcement of morals ’ , in particular in the field of sexual morals , where the activities condemned may ‘ involve nothing that would ordinarily be thought of as harm to other persons ’ . |
| 13 | Following the inability to trace records of certain interviews and the fact that other important papers were not presented at previous hearings of this matter , the fire in the building where the former South Midland Area 's archives were temporarily housed pending re-organisation was particularly unfortunate and can only be thought of as an unhappy coincidence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Plato can reasonably be thought of as the most radically and implacably anti-democratic of all political philosophers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What Irigaray describes as mimétisme can also be thought of as parody . |
| 18 | What takes place between the I and the You is a human transaction which can also be thought of in terms of gesture . |
| 19 | Denote this intervention by X. In the case of agriculture , biology , medicine and even psychology , formal laboratory or field experiments can usually be done ; in the social sciences this is generally not possible but a good survey can often be thought of in quasi-experimental terms . |
| 20 | Orcs and Savage Orcs are good fighting troops and can therefore be thought of as core units , but they can also be used as quality supporting troops if armed with missile weapons . |
| 21 | A standard method for searching any kind of database ( and a lexicon with various pieces of additional information can certainly be thought of as a database ) on a key other than the primary one ( the primary key for a lexicon is the word itself ) is by using inverted list structures ( Claybrook , 1983 ; Date , 1986 ) . |