Example sentences of "[be] think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudinist calls statements which express attitudes rather than beliefs value statements and be thinks of ethical statements as a more or less vaguely delimited subclass of these . |
| 2 | Becoming an actor has to be thought of in realistic terms right from the beginning and all possible problems do need to be faced . |
| 3 | What is seldom realised , until a first cross-country , is the vast increase in mental workload involved when soaring , map reading , field landings and flying have to be thought of , instead of just how to stay up . |
| 4 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 5 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 6 | 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 ) … |
| 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 | This needs repeating several times because with his notorious drip paintings he came to be thought of by some as a dripster , a drooler , a mere pourer . |
| 9 | ONE IS always a bit bashful about asking for blood tests on onself — no one likes to be thought of as a hypochondriac . |
| 10 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 11 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 12 | We feel that we will be criticized if an old person is found in less than perfect conditions , and we will be thought of as neglecting them . |
| 13 | They were younger than she had expected and seemed shy and reticent , emphasising frequently , all the way up the stairs , that they wanted only a bolt-hole and must not be thought of as real boarders . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus evolution can be thought of as a process of hill-climbing . |
| 16 | In this typical example , the allosteric enzyme can be thought of as a switch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So great were such feats , and so very great was Charles , that countless legends sprung up around him , and his rule began to be thought of as a golden age . |
| 19 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 20 | The science and art of maintaining , breeding and displaying wild animals successfully in captivity may be thought of as something akin to gardeners with green fingers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It may be thought of as a giant aquatic Guinea Pig weighing up to 60 kilograms . |
| 23 | He has pointed out , too , that if life is considered in this light , then some clays could be thought of as alive . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | According to this account the formation of associations during pre-exposure and the loss of associability are not to be thought of as rival interpretations of latent inhibition . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Not to be thought of , I agree . ’ |
| 28 | The 1980s might usefully be thought of as the ‘ decade of regulatory reform ’ . |
| 29 | If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ . |
| 30 | But we shall now see that the phenotypic effects of a gene need to be thought of as all the effects that it has on the world . |