Example sentences of "[noun] might [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 — |
| 5 | 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 ! ) . |
| 6 | Except in larger firms , unanimity might be thought to be desirable in the interests of preventing further splits in the firm , and even where a majority decision is available , a genuine attempt to achieve unanimity should always be made : save in any but the clearest case , exercise of the power by a permitted majority without consultation with the remaining partners would be regarded as being in bad faith . |
| 7 | Although the students had few problems in discerning a variety of viable strategies for presenting new lexis in such a way that learners might be thought to be able to perceive its meaning without the intervention of English , the areas of structure and discourse proved less tractable . |
| 8 | The dominating sadist might be thought to be compensating for a feeling of sexual or personal inadequacy . |
| 9 | Thus , as Romaine points out , the following utterances might be thought of as functionally equivalent , in that they have the same communicative purpose , even though the surface syntactic forms are not necessarily related : |
| 10 | Both the absence , and recent emergence , of disability arts and culture might be thought of as a mirror reflecting the current status of this tension between passive and active roles . |
| 11 | On the other hand , its penalty structure might be thought to be preferable to that of New South Wales , for the maximum penalty for each category of offence is higher than in New South Wales and the ten-year maximum for simple sexual assault enables a heavier penalty to be imposed in serious cases which do not come within the higher categories . |
| 12 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |