Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] think [prep] " 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 | Modernist organizations may be thought of in terms of Weber 's typification of bureaucratized , mechanistic structures of control , as these were subsequently erected upon a fully rationalized base of divided and deskilled labour . |
| 3 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 4 | Unit trusts must buy back any units investors wish to sell , at the prevailing price , and so investors can obtain liquidity at any time , although of course if instant liquidity is required the transaction may have to be carried out at unfavourable prices , and so units should be thought of as long term investments with a deposit account held at a bank or building society for liquid funds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 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 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 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 | A clue to confirmation would be to think of any recent accident in this regard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 18 | At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality . |
| 19 | Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 — |
| 22 | geographical areas , e.g. the North and South of England may be thought of as separate markets for many products ; |
| 23 | The lexical items in a taxonomy may be thought of as corresponding to classes of things in the extra-linguistic world . |
| 24 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 25 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 26 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 27 | It is difficult to see how this disagreement between the Scottish Law Commission and the Scottish High Court judge could be thought of as other than political . |
| 28 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 29 | Discussion of the benefits to the manufacturer of vertical separation and of imposing restraints on downstream firms reminds us that one way the whole issue can be thought of is as a principal-agent problem of delegation . |
| 30 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |