Example sentences of "can [be] thought [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These things can be thought about , moral problems can be faced and solved , one just needs the will and the courage .
2 Thus evolution can be thought of as a process of hill-climbing .
3 In this typical example , the allosteric enzyme can be thought of as a switch .
4 Cells in different parts of the embryo can be thought of as developing along quite different pathways , diverging more and more in character .
5 To use yet another metaphor , moulding of form can be thought of as metalworking ; patterning like painting .
6 Other ‘ flags ’ can be thought of as developing within one part of the French flag .
7 In a way , development can be thought of as a cascade , one event leading to another .
8 The tracks can be thought of as patterns of gene activity and the ball as a developing cell .
9 The differentiation of the different kinds of blood cells can be thought of in terms of the branching pathway model .
10 Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell .
11 The slope can be thought of as a numerical expression of the strength of causal effect of one variable on another .
12 The residuals from the fitted line can be thought of as values for a variable which have been adjusted to take the explanatory variable into account .
13 Curves which are monotonic and contain only one bend can be thought of as one of the four quadrants of a circle .
14 Norms can be thought of as unwritten rules .
15 In another analogy , our mind can be thought of as a huge tapestry in which the many episodes of life were originally isolated and there was no relationship between the parts ; but at last we must make a unified scene of our whole life .
16 Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents .
17 Fear can be thought of as a force in itself which we feed - the more we feed our fears , the stronger the force becomes and the more it assails us .
18 Both of them can be thought of as being exercised in varying degrees , so that observation of people can be carried out with varying degrees of participation and varying degrees of control .
19 In a biosensor , the biolayer is a true material component in the device , and can be thought of as an intelligent biomaterial .
20 An individual firm 's demand for labour can be thought of as a derived demand — it is derived from the consumers ' demand for the firm 's product .
21 These can be thought of as five somewhat different shapes , but it must be remembered that when people are talking they will be rapidly moving shapes .
22 The price paid for a warrant can be thought of as part of the subscription price for a share which may ( or may not ) be issued at a future date .
23 At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality .
24 This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling .
25 These stress trajectories can be thought of , more or less , as strings under tension and they will try to straighten in much the same way .
26 This was a very hot body , spewing its heat and gases copiously into space : it can be thought of as a planet-sized erupting volcano .
27 In the simplest terms , these can be thought of as particles which at the moment do not in fact exist — but one day might .
28 The Mournes can be thought of as being in two sections : the higher , more popular eastern range , where they ‘ sweep down to the sea ’ and the lower , even less frequented , western range .
29 Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side .
30 This can be thought of as a probability measure that the word token in question resulted from a misspelling of a dictionary word .
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