Example sentences of "thought [prep] as [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 2 | The genetic control of behaviour patterns in different species is , for all we know , so diverse that neither experiment should be thought of as particularly representative of behaviour as a whole . |
| 3 | The Buddhist goal is Nirvana , which some Western writers have thought of as completely negative , annihilation or nothingness . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For many purposes polymers can be thought of as entirely one-dimensional that is , as mathematical lines . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 9 | 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 . |