Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be thought of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For ease of reference , the various steps are numbered , but the divisions between the steps should never be thought of as hard and fast . |
| 3 | The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . " |
| 4 | This should not be taken at face value ; our ‘ individuals ’ might better be thought of as neuter , reproducing themselves unaided . |
| 5 | The 1980s might usefully be thought of as the ‘ decade of regulatory reform ’ . |
| 6 | Cattle eat grass , and might therefore be thought of as enemies of grass . |
| 7 | the gay male parody of a certain femininity , which , as others have argued , may itself be an elaborate social construct , is both a way of giving vent to the hostility toward women that probably afflicts every male ( and which male heterosexuals have of course expressed in infinitely nastier and more effective ways ) and could paradoxically be thought of as helping to deconstruct that image for women themselves … |
| 8 | The Exodus narrative , identifying the God of Israel as the worker of wonders such as those which led Pharoah to release the Israelites from Egypt , could easily be thought of as referring to one god among many . |
| 9 | If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ . |
| 10 | There is no sharp dividing-line between academic or professional courses on the one hand and general ones on the other ; indeed some of the broader courses involving several disciplines which have been mentioned already may well be thought of as general — it is all a matter of degree . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Of course , only the district councils would normally be thought of as ‘ local government ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | An education may therefore be thought of as ‘ general ’ either in terms of types of knowledge or the culture to which it belongs . |
| 16 | The need to strive for such aims can only be thought of as fundamental and humanitarian . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Circumstances and what may amount to encouragement by the victim may sometimes mitigate the offence and , particularly under such conditions , impulsive or specifically planned rape is no more than an offence — it can hardly be thought of as deviant in the true sense of the word . |
| 20 | Plato can reasonably be thought of as the most radically and implacably anti-democratic of all political philosophers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ . |
| 23 | What takes place between the I and the You is a human transaction which can also be thought of in terms of gesture . |
| 24 | What Irigaray describes as mimétisme can also be thought of as parody . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The process of development between Eqs ( 5.1 ) and ( 5.8 ) have transformed the Markowitz Tobin model , and the expected return of a security can now be thought of solely in terms of its relationship with the expected market rate of return . |
| 27 | The classic oligopoly models can then be thought of as one-shot , non-co-operative games to which the NE concept can be applied to find a solution . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |