Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] think [prep] " in BNC.

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31 A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling .
32 A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling .
33 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 .
34 Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music .
35 If the VGA or SuperVGA monitor of your PC can be thought of as a car , then the graphics card should be thought of as the engine .
36 The bat should be thought of as analogous to the police radar trapping instrument , not to the person who designed that instrument .
37 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 .
38 We used to be mortified to think that a recognisable vest or discarded pair of pants , now grey , torn and shapeless , should be thought by a neighbour to be worn by one of us .
39 Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds .
40 I — well , I do n't know what you must be thinking of me .
41 ‘ You must be thinking of someone else .
42 The modern ‘ dictator , ’ a Hitler or Mussolini , must be thought of … as a highly paid leading actor , whose business is to divert his people ( individually , from the spectacle of their own littleness as well as from more useful business ) …
43 It must be thought of as just one of the tools available to business today for managing the ever increasing volumes of information .
44 However , description is not a privileged area of objective study , and the presentation of socio-cultural conditions of other societies can not be viewed as a final explanation of other institutions and values , but must be thought of as part of the observer 's reconstruction of their own understanding of the institutions and values .
45 For you , all historical writing must be thought of as evidence .
46 In the final analysis , it must be thought of as the eternal and original artistic power that calls into being the entire world of phenomena .
47 Since let signifies here not intervening in some event which is already under way , it is obvious that the letting must be thought of as coinciding in time with the actualization of the other event .
48 ‘ That is bad , and must be thought about .
49 Death must be thought about and with that thinking must come triumph over it .
50 ‘ Why , what did you think I might be thinking about ? ’
51 Anyone who might be thinking of embarking on one of their saddlery courses should be aware that some specialist tools will need to be bought .
52 To date , Washington has amassed career earnings of $512,272 , ( 7/4/92 ) , a figure which demonstrates to others who might be thinking of following in his footsteps that tennis can be as lucrative as either baseball or basketball .
53 It says right here on your records that you might be thinking of wimping out on us .
54 It is structured to provide information for those who have to ‘ flesh out ’ a module as well as discussing criterion-referenced assessment and choice of assessment instruments in more detail for those who might be thinking of developing their own module or seeking permission to vary the assessment instruments in an existing module .
55 ‘ Clare said you might be thinking of leaving .
56 As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) .
57 This might be thought to be a good thing .
58 Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city —
59 This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) .
60 To illustrate , I will take what might be thought to be an example posing relatively few problems — the case of the Loch Ness monster .
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