Example sentences of "[noun] can [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 5 | At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality . |
| 6 | Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While to some extent the harmful and the helpful beings in the Chewong universe can be thought of as opposed , they do not fall into neatly discernible complementary categories . |
| 11 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 12 | Permanent consumption can be thought of as the normal or planned level of spending out of permanent income and can differ from measured consumption ( C ) by any unplanned , temporary increases or decreases in consumer spending , called transitory consumption ( CT ) . |
| 13 | One important factor to test is the assumed exogeneity of wealth , i.e. whether wealth can be thought of as being determined prior to its allocation amongst individual assets . |
| 14 | I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place . |
| 15 | Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents . |
| 16 | The price paid for a warrant can be thought of as part of the subscription price for a share which may ( or may not ) be issued at a future date . |
| 17 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 18 | In this typical example , the allosteric enzyme can be thought of as a switch . |
| 19 | An occam process can be thought of as acting in steps : a step is either a single communication or the act of successful termination . |
| 20 | This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling . |
| 21 | The tracks can be thought of as patterns of gene activity and the ball as a developing cell . |
| 22 | Any body can be thought of as consisting of lots of small masses m , and the angular momentum of such a body around a point P is obtained by combining the products mrs according to certain rules which I shall not describe . |
| 23 | Thus evolution can be thought of as a process of hill-climbing . |
| 24 | In a way , development can be thought of as a cascade , one event leading to another . |
| 25 | These positive actions can be thought of as good practice in risk management . |
| 26 | These things can be thought about , moral problems can be faced and solved , one just needs the will and the courage . |
| 27 | Entropy can be thought of as a measure of the chaos , randomness or disorder of a system . |
| 28 | The households can be thought of as the owners of factors of production , the services of which they sell to firms in exchange for income ( in the form of wages , salaries , interest , rent and profit ) . |
| 29 | If you think of it as its sound equivalent , each radar emission can be thought of as a swooping wolf-whistle . |
| 30 | Each byte that is printed in bit-image mode can be thought of as an eight-bit binary number with the digit 1 meaning ‘ print a dot here ’ and the digit 0 meaning ‘ do not print a dot here ’ . |