Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competitors are rarely accused of deliberately killing a kinsman , though they might well be accused of inadvertently doing so . |
| 2 | He notes that Mackie compares values to colours , and describes both as things which are normally thought of as existing independently ( and which conceivably might have done so ) but which a reasonable scientific view of the world exhibits as not really there . |
| 3 | These diverging processes are best thought of as locally autonomous in the manner of the ‘ recursive ’ procedure of Chapter 3 , rather than as coordinated in some grand central design . |
| 4 | Organizations are thus conceived of as purposive social arrangements , as stable social groups with internally differentiated roles that are brought together for some purpose . |
| 5 | By focusing on the day to day practicalities of business life in collaboration with businessmen , it will be possible to see how far what are usually thought of as mutually exclusive approaches are , in fact , reconcilable . |
| 6 | There is growing recognition of the dedication of disabled athletes , but many feel their efforts are still thought of as somehow less significant than those of able bodied competitors . |
| 7 | It is particularly applicable to large database and on-line transaction processing systems , says Price , which are often composed of very large applications and tasks . |
| 8 | ‘ In my country , ’ she began like a student from abroad , ‘ the English are often thought of as fey . ’ |
| 9 | In my country , ’ he mocked her slightly , ‘ Americans are often thought of as vulgar . ’ |
| 10 | On this bass the two single-coil J-type pickups are Bartolinis , which are often thought of as almost over-efficient , with a too-bright sound , but this characteristic ( shared by the Pedullas reviewed recently ) can be modified by the onboard circuitry . |
| 11 | Transition fields are often thought of as weak but predominantly dipolar , as would occur if the dynamo were inactive and failing to regenerate the field . |
| 12 | Such themes place Scottish studies at the head of urgent European concerns , at a time when cultures are often thought of as monolithic , and when cultural exclusivity is a source of often violent conflict . |
| 13 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 14 | It 's very interesting that it 's in Sussex and East Kent that , just in the border there , that some of the most exotic Puritan names that you sometimes hear about , Praise God Bare Bones and Deliverance Smith and these kind of weird names , which are often thought of as typically Puritan , in fact are very narrowly defined to a geographical area , and in time . |
| 15 | The extent , however , to which that marks them off from what are typically thought of as more ‘ objective ’ features of the world in which we live depends on how far one thinks that has a character independent of any form of sentient experience . |
| 16 | These , framing the scene , are surely thought of as asleep in another part of the palace , roused by the tumult in the hall , as Penelope and her women listen to the fight with the Suitors . |
| 17 | They report the occurrence of certain sensory stimuli , and the stimuli are here thought of as publicly available ; the same stimuli can occur to more than one person . |
| 18 | Advances in health care have meant that most of them are seldom heard of here . |