Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] be thought of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernist organizations may be thought of in terms of Weber 's typification of bureaucratized , mechanistic structures of control , as these were subsequently erected upon a fully rationalized base of divided and deskilled labour . |
| 2 | Unit trusts must buy back any units investors wish to sell , at the prevailing price , and so investors can obtain liquidity at any time , although of course if instant liquidity is required the transaction may have to be carried out at unfavourable prices , and so units should be thought of as long term investments with a deposit account held at a bank or building society for liquid funds . |
| 3 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 4 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 5 | These stress trajectories can be thought of , more or less , as strings under tension and they will try to straighten in much the same way . |
| 6 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |
| 7 | He has pointed out , too , that if life is considered in this light , then some clays could be thought of as alive . |
| 8 | The tracks can be thought of as patterns of gene activity and the ball as a developing cell . |
| 9 | Census materials are an invaluable resource for the historian but the technical manipulation of figures may be thought of as being the remit of the mathematics department or even the geographers . |
| 10 | These positive actions can be thought of as good practice in risk management . |
| 11 | None of these five constituencies is itself anything like an authentic community , and the notion that the two County constituencies could be thought of as parts of the same community as the three City constituencies is laughable . |
| 12 | Harmony is dependent on the species being considered , but with fish that have a potential size of 12″ these stocking levels could be thought of as being rather high . |
| 13 | The households can be thought of as the owners of factors of production , the services of which they sell to firms in exchange for income ( in the form of wages , salaries , interest , rent and profit ) . |
| 14 | Intersection and union of sets can be thought of in terms of the shaded regions in Fig. 0.1 ; such figures are called Venn diagrams . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the share of overseas assets reached a peak in 1989 Q4 ; it simply implies that the conditions for investment are relatively free in that any remaining controls can be thought of as prudential rather than prohibitive . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | These underlying issues can be thought of as ‘ hidden voices ’ , which can block learning , or , if they become a central focus , can unleash learning and motivation to change . |
| 18 | In this sense , as alternative ways to meet the same need , the two markets can be thought of as being in competition . |
| 19 | These decision points can be thought of as nooses that pull together two or more nodes in a tree . |
| 20 | The number systems we use as yardsticks should be thought of as being made not of wood but of elastic which can be stretched or shrunk to our convenience . |
| 21 | Scripts can be thought of as slot-and-filler structures , in which the slots have default values so that events can be inferred even when they are not mentioned explicitly in a text . |
| 22 | Azimuthal or Zenithal projections can be thought of in terms of the projection of the lines of latitude and longitude on the globe onto a fiat sheet of paper which touches the globe at some point ( for example , the north or south pole in the case of Polar Azimuthal projections ) . |
| 23 | Norms can be thought of as unwritten rules . |
| 24 | Thus an account of housing development in North Shields provides us with a background to inter-war and immediate post-war developments in both owner-occupied and council housing , whereas Cramlington 's owner-occupied estates can be thought of as suburbanization produced by developer builders . |
| 25 | The molecules can be thought of as little billiard balls continually colliding with each other and bouncing off the walls of the box . |
| 26 | For many purposes polymers can be thought of as entirely one-dimensional that is , as mathematical lines . |
| 27 | The differentiation of the different kinds of blood cells can be thought of in terms of the branching pathway model . |
| 28 | We have shown that polynomials can be thought of in the way we have always thought of them , secure in the knowledge that uncomfortable questions about x can be circumvented . |