Example sentences of "of [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The presence or absence of public transport that can get people to work , that may be thought of as a service available between 8 and 9 am and 5 and 6 pm from Mondays to Fridays , is a much more realistic indicator of accessibility . |
| 32 | 625–6 when Cwichelm , styled by Bede king of the West Saxons but perhaps more correctly thought of as a king in the upper Thames valley ( see above , pp. 48 ff. ) , sought to have Eadwine assassinated ; Eadwine 's retaliating attack , when he is said to have slain or subdued all those who had plotted against him ( HE 11 , 9 ) , confirms that he was reaching the height of his power by the mid-620s . |
| 33 | Lewis , for instance , is frequently spoken of as a man who enjoyed male coteries , as though , in the 1930s , the regiments , the London clubs , the Oxford and |
| 34 | Possibly because Brando prefers to be thought of as a man of the people , he tended to snub the other actors as well as the producers and director in favour of the company of the crew . |
| 35 | The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings . |
| 36 | ‘ He liked to be thought of as a man of the world , ’ said Gerald Thomas . |
| 37 | Whilst you 're a student , you may find that you 're often thought of as a stereotype — hardworking , humourless academic , single-minded radical or easy-living perpetual partygoer . |
| 38 | Treating the twin-T of figure 8.10(a) quantitatively by the method of node-pair analysis , Kirchhoff 's current law applied at nodes X and Y respectively gives On collecting terms these equations become Now , provided that the twin-T is unloaded , or Substituting for from equation ( 8.30 ) in equation ( 8.29 ) and substituting for from equation ( 8.28 ) Hence the transfer function for the unloaded twin-T is and the ratio of potential-difference amplitude between the output and input is The behaviour of as a function of frequency according to equation ( 8.32 ) is plotted in figure 8.10(b) . |
| 39 | Really sort of as a sign of service erm to , to community . |
| 40 | For Hölderlin , the assimilation of classical Greece is conceived of as a blueprint for the German nation . |
| 41 | It is thought of as a requirement incumbent on citizens in virtue of the independently established authority of the state . |
| 42 | Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side . |
| 43 | What they tend to overlook is that the very idea that kinship can be thought of as a dimension of the total society , analogous to , yet quite distinct from , both " economics " and " politics " , is an invention of the anthropologists themselves . |
| 44 | Do bear in mind that while you can only use Wysiwyg in SHEET mode you can always Retrieve something you think of as a document into a SHEET and embellish it there . |
| 45 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 46 | The wide mouth might be thought of as a kind of lawn mower for taking up vast quantities of grass to support their huge bodies . |
| 47 | All his early interests in music and the theatre , even his puppets ( if manipulating them is thought of as a kind of preparation for choreography ) came together in this new activity . |
| 48 | She knew that her eldest son was involved in all manner of criminal activities , that he was thought of as a kind of mobster . |
| 49 | It can be thought of as a kind of organisational ‘ cement ’ . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ And I am Lio ! rt Dragonlord , ’ said the hanging man , pronouncing the word with the harsh click in the back of the throat that Rincewind could only think of as a kind of integral punctuation . |
| 52 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 53 | , Robert ( fl. 1556–1574 ) , surveyor and map-maker , is first heard of as a cartographer who mapped the English pale at Calais in 1556 , on the instructions of the royal auditor , John Chaloner . |
| 54 | Furthermore , it believes it is not just another personal computer provider , saying that it ca n't simply ‘ be compared with someone like Compaq ’ — it prefers to be thought of as a supplier of personal systems . |
| 55 | Explicitness of meaning , in other words , may be better thought of as a goal rather than an achievement . |
| 56 | This can be thought of as a probability measure that the word token in question resulted from a misspelling of a dictionary word . |
| 57 | ‘ Lewis-Bruno has been spoken of as a fight which will gross £18 million , but that 's wide of the mark . |
| 58 | But by and large rugby has much to be proud of as a vehicle for bringing nations together in a sporting brotherhood when political barriers threaten to keep them apart . |
| 59 | Last night , Thomas said : ‘ One minute I was being talked of as a Pounds 3 million player , the next I was in Crystal Palace 's reserves . |
| 60 | ONE IS always a bit bashful about asking for blood tests on onself — no one likes to be thought of as a hypochondriac . |