Example sentences of "[be] think [prep] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the differences between the two accounts may be disturbing , especially if the accounts are thought of as simple historical records of the birth of Jesus . |
| 2 | The illustrations are for the case when the game is played with the eight neighbouring sites ( the cells corresponding to the chess king 's move ) , and with one 's own site ( which is reasonable if the players are thought of as organized groups occupying territory ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | According to this account the formation of associations during pre-exposure and the loss of associability are not to be thought of as rival interpretations of latent inhibition . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , however , different intervals of time tended to be thought of as separate discrete units . |
| 6 | geographical areas , e.g. the North and South of England may be thought of as separate markets for many products ; |
| 7 | They were younger than she had expected and seemed shy and reticent , emphasising frequently , all the way up the stairs , that they wanted only a bolt-hole and must not be thought of as real boarders . |
| 8 | Norms can be thought of as unwritten rules . |
| 9 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 10 | These positive actions can be thought of as good practice in risk management . |
| 11 | It does not suit professional courses , such as those in medicine , law , engineering or business studies which can be thought of as composite subjects , and which therefore tend to have few external ancillary courses . |
| 12 | Secondly , there is in these works the assumption , not demonstrated , that therefore lawyers are to be thought of as social controllers . |
| 13 | Summonses are naturally utterance-initial , indeed conversation-initial ( see Schegloff , 1972a ) , and can be thought of as independent speech acts ( see Chapter 5 ) in their own right . |
| 14 | At the higher values of the Richardson number , the turbulence may be thought of as random superposition of internal waves ( Section 15.4 ) . |
| 15 | The Apolline and the Dionysiac are to be thought of as antithetical artistic tendencies or impulses ; and the nature of any art at any time varies according to which of the two is operative . |
| 16 | Scripts can be thought of as slot-and-filler structures , in which the slots have default values so that events can be inferred even when they are not mentioned explicitly in a text . |
| 17 | Twenty six years on the chances are that Britain could , once again , be thought of as potential medal prospects . |
| 18 | 1 Up until 1914 women were thought of as second-class citizens in all roles of life . |