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

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1 It may be thought of as a giant aquatic Guinea Pig weighing up to 60 kilograms .
2 It may be thought of as a reaction against the ‘ classical ’ form of bureaucracy ( and unity of command — ie. one man , one boss ) by establishing a structure of dual command .
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 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 .
5 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 .
6 In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order .
7 It can be thought of as a kind of organisational ‘ cement ’ .
8 In a sense it can be thought of as a direction of time that is at right angles to real time .
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