Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] thought of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number systems we use as yardsticks should be thought of as being made not of wood but of elastic which can be stretched or shrunk to our convenience . |
| 2 | Idea the participant observer is virtually a spy , since to be accepted completely in a particular capacity within a group the observer should be thought of as actually being in nothing but that capacity . |
| 3 | To say the least , it is unfortunate that a multiply influenced process with many stages in it should be thought of by sociobiological proponents and their critics alike ( e.g. Solomon , 1978 ) as having an invariant outcome and a single explanation . |
| 4 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 5 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 6 | This is , of course , a simplified picture of a sense-spectrum : it should be thought of as having , at least potentially , many dimensions , and as continually growing , amoeba-like . |
| 7 | We intend to reject this approach , and instead to embrace Dahl 's claim that ‘ every large corporation should be thought of as a social enterprise ; that is , as an entity whose existence and decisions can be justified only insofar as they serve public or social purposes ’ . |
| 8 | A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling . |
| 9 | A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The bat should be thought of as analogous to the police radar trapping instrument , not to the person who designed that instrument . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) … |
| 16 | It must be thought of as just one of the tools available to business today for managing the ever increasing volumes of information . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For you , all historical writing must be thought of as evidence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 23 | More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging . |
| 24 | Vandalism , for example , might be thought of as a collection of clearly identifiable acts requiring sanction for the simple reason that they offend against the property , both individual and collective , of members in society . |
| 25 | Collectively , that does not leave many of us out ; and there can , of course , be few of us who have not at some time or another suffered from what might be thought of as a sexual problem albeit , perhaps , a trifling one . |
| 26 | Similarly , the suppressed sadist who exercises the inclination by verbal humiliation might be thought of as needing to dominate , while the one who by word and action emotionally breaks down the victim as a person might be destructive . |
| 27 | Both the absence , and recent emergence , of disability arts and culture might be thought of as a mirror reflecting the current status of this tension between passive and active roles . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | It might be thought of as over-reacting but the development of local monopolies and cartels is just conceivable . |
| 30 | It might be thought of as repressive but they actually enjoy it . |