Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence or absence of public transport that can get people to work , that may be thought of as a service available between 8 and 9 am and 5 and 6 pm from Mondays to Fridays , is a much more realistic indicator of accessibility . |
| 2 | As for the infrequency with which it is celebrated , this may be thought to be a reaction against the daily sacrifice of the Mass and the emphasis that grace comes dear and difficult not cheap and daily . |
| 3 | This may be thought to be the legal way to control force . |
| 4 | This may be thought scarcely auspicious . |
| 5 | This may be thought to give some substance to the notion of representation , which otherwise remains remarkably vague and undemanding in the Burkean version . |
| 6 | Secondly , it will be examined why , granted the profit maximisation objective , the profits should accrue to the shareholders , as opposed , for example , to the employees : if considerations of efficiency underscore the shareholders ' current position of preeminence , then this may be thought to provide a justificatory foundation for shareholder rights within a public interest framework . |
| 7 | In a sense this may be thought to contradict what I said in chapter 1 , where the emphasis was on the evident synchroneity of particular deposits , particularly carbonates . |
| 8 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 9 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 10 | Any estate owner who achieved this might be thought to have made a notable bargain . |
| 11 | The merit of separate qualified defences is that they focus the evidence and the legal argument , giving the jury ( in contested cases ) an opportunity to assess the defence , and giving the judge fairly precise guidance on the basis for sentencing : this might be thought to ensure that each defendant is dealt with more fairly , but the risk of confusing the jury in a contested case might tend to erode that protection . |
| 12 | While this might be thought to have a major impact , the effects would have been lessened if the cremating was carried out at dispersed homes . |
| 13 | This might be thought to throw into disarray our grounds for specifying what animals see , hear , and otherwise sense . |
| 14 | Sir Brynmor Jones said jocularly : " The teacher who can be replaced by a teaching machine or any audio-visual aid deserves to be ( 1968 : 281 ) and this might be thought also to be true of replacement by ancillaries . |
| 15 | There is no distinct technology of advertising , but this could be thought an arbitrary objection , especially when the boundaries between media technologies that were quite sharp in the 1940s — between print and photography , or film and TV , for example — were dissolving in the 1980s . |
| 16 | This can be thought of as a probability measure that the word token in question resulted from a misspelling of a dictionary word . |
| 17 | This can be thought of as comprising the following clauses : Roger has a dog The dog is black It is called Ben These can be combined in various ways which would " score " in a count of dependent clauses , e.g. : Roger has a dog , Ben , who is black , Roger has a black dog , who is called Ben , while the initial version does not . |
| 18 | This can be thought of as entering the three main two-dimensional views ( front , side and plan ) into the space to lie either on the axis or on the surface of the local space brick ( see Figure 3.6 ) . |
| 19 | This can be thought of as an investment — an expenditure today for which there is hoped to be a return in future years in the form of a lowering in the costs of production ( for a process invention ) . |
| 20 | In comparison , the other visits a world , a boys ' preparatory school in a Georgian house full of earnest people listening to lectures on ‘ the novel ’ , that might be thought almost civilized . |
| 21 | Cecil 's yearly income from politics at the end of his life was nearly £7,000 without the presents from Spain and other hidden receipts ; that might be thought sufficient . |
| 22 | The first and second of these may be thought of , roughly , as equivalent to capital market constraints implemented by the stock market and banks ; the last as a form of managerial labour market constraint . |
| 23 | In very broad terms these may be thought of as divisions based on social class . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the simplest terms , these can be thought of as particles which at the moment do not in fact exist — but one day might . |
| 26 | These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 . |
| 27 | These can be thought of in terms of seven organizational imperatives , which he derives from a larger set constructed by Jacques ( 1989 ) . |
| 28 | But you all may be thinking , that is all well and good , but where are we going to find the time , the support , and the resources to do this . |
| 29 | However , just as the latter might be thought to have an intuitive grasp of affairs automotive which ought to be taken into account by anyone prone to theorising about the motor car , so it is conceivable that the way theoretical physicists regard the objects of their study might be a factor to be taken into account in assessing their significance . |
| 30 | The latter can be thought of either as something like a pointer moving across a scale to a mark labelled " here " , or ultimately as a conscious observer looking at such a pointer and saying " By Jove , the electron 's here " on this occasion . |