Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A clue to confirmation would be to think of any recent accident in this regard . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 13 | At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality . |
| 14 | Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments . |
| 15 | 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 — |
| 16 | The lexical items in a taxonomy may be thought of as corresponding to classes of things in the extra-linguistic world . |
| 17 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 18 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 19 | 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 ! ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents . |
| 29 | The profile may be thought of as a set of fake hybridisations with the set of M mapped probes and the probe/contig , and consequently may be displayed using show . |
| 30 | A way of understanding this difference may be to think of formal features as in some way built up in our minds from the black marks which form writing on the page , or from the speech sounds picked up by our ears , while contextual features are somewhere outside this physical realization of the language in the world , or pre-existing in the minds of the participants . |