Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in order to distance the law from the many preconceived cultural notions about rape , rapists and rape victims , a new terminology may be thought to be desirable . |
| 2 | That this is the case may be thought not to be chance . |
| 3 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 4 | It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created . |
| 5 | For example , in Fig. 11–10 , the new tax price for the good may be thought to look like the curve B ( instead of MC ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 14 | I agree that the SPL ( sound pressure level ) of speakers should be given by the manufacturer , and maybe some kind of SPL/dB/wattage equation could be thought up and listed , rather like the BHP reading for motor cars . |
| 15 | A clue to confirmation would be to think of any recent accident in this regard . |
| 16 | A watercourse viewed primarily as an effluent carrier will be thought better able to tolerate further pollution . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 21 | At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality . |
| 22 | Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments . |
| 23 | An agreement to induce a breach of contract might be thought to fall outside this protection because inducement is a tort if committed by one person , but this is not so if the inducement is protected by section 13(1) . |
| 24 | 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 — |
| 25 | A possible difficulty might be thought to arise when a proposition is obliquely referred to rather than explicitly stated . |
| 26 | All but one or two questions were concerned with basic mathematical concepts and skills , so that differences in curriculum might be thought not to have contributed greatly to failure . |
| 27 | The lexical items in a taxonomy may be thought of as corresponding to classes of things in the extra-linguistic world . |
| 28 | But looking at the whole thing from a higher perspective , it seems to me that the Leeds management may be thinking that we are not going to win the championship this season or at least they are prepared to wait another year to have a go . |
| 29 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 30 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |