Example sentences of "thought of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself . |
| 2 | Becoming an actor has to be thought of in realistic terms right from the beginning and all possible problems do need to be faced . |
| 3 | Which was right be had no resemblance to what is commercially thought of a typecasting in any way — it 's just that the mixture was right with Simon Callow . |
| 4 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 5 | ‘ Parysatis did it with a chicken and I should have thought of it before . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . |
| 7 | ‘ Ever thought of Colchester ? ’ she asked me . |
| 8 | What is seldom realised , until a first cross-country , is the vast increase in mental workload involved when soaring , map reading , field landings and flying have to be thought of , instead of just how to stay up . |
| 9 | Should have thought of that before . |
| 10 | Well , now , my dear , I had n't thought of that . |
| 11 | And suddenly there was a rampant little queen dying to violate everything you 've thought of as normal ? ’ |
| 12 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 13 | ‘ But what will it say — have you thought of that ? ’ |
| 14 | And , contrary to Hume 's contention , being very dimly in consciousness is not the same as being thought of . |
| 15 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 16 | ‘ In my country , ’ she began like a student from abroad , ‘ the English are often thought of as fey . ’ |
| 17 | In my country , ’ he mocked her slightly , ‘ Americans are often thought of as vulgar . ’ |
| 18 | Then she blurted the thought out : ‘ D' you know I 've never thought of you as really English . |
| 19 | Now why had n't I thought of it before ! |
| 20 | Many a player who had been highly thought of has disappeared from the tennis scene . |
| 21 | It argues for a one-stage system with challenges to decisions being thought of as ‘ appeals ’ rather than ‘ reviews ’ . |
| 22 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 23 | Who but Ashton would have thought of giving this country yokel so delicate a movement ? |
| 24 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 25 | Shakespearan drama is usually thought of as the embodiment of a truly popular art , whatever ‘ bourgeois ’ or aristocratic dimensions it also possesses . |
| 26 | Wittgenstein , widely thought of as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century , published very little in his lifetime , and is unlikely to have got tenure in a modern British university . |
| 27 | Yet it contains a contradiction , since the class-struggle , or more generally the struggle against oppression , is thought of as always visibly at work in history in a clearly timeless way . |
| 28 | There are certain academic precedents , particularly the uncontroversial establishment in a number of universities of degrees in drama , which do work previously thought of as belonging to an English degree . |
| 29 | and I have not thought of |
| 30 | Armed with Lipton 's motto — ‘ Good architecture is good business ’ — they employ a wide range of architects , both established and up-and-coming , commonly thought of as ‘ good ’ . |