Example sentences of "be thought of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking to him gave Jane the idea ( obvious , as most good ideas seem , once they 're thought of ) of producing a guide to the firm 's products , loose-leaf for updating , to be distributed to doctors and clinics . |
| 2 | Individual gens are linked with one another , in that their ancestors are thought of as related , thereby creating an obligation between the members of these gens . |
| 3 | When a child gets out of line in assembly and the teacher shouts ‘ Do n't you understand English or are you just stupid ’ , or when Indian parents who do come to speak to teachers are laughed at or rebuffed , children both black and white learn just how Indians are thought of by people who matter . |
| 4 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 5 | Adolescents are thought of ( and often rightly ) as disciplinary headaches to their parents . |
| 6 | Although , today , justices of the peace are thought of primarily as being judicial bodies , they nevertheless retain certain administrative functions ( the best known of which is the issuing of liquor licences ) which , however , are a pale shadow of their former role . |
| 7 | Similarly , trade unions are thought of as institutions whose objectives and practices are fundamentally opposed to the public interest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Another child , whose bullying ways are thought of as ‘ manly ’ by his father will learn efficiently to hit others whenever he wants . |
| 10 | Rights are thought of as things which are possessed , enjoyed , exercised , yielded up , foregone , etc . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | In the lay person 's view , and in the view of some professional linguists , the norms of language are associated with notions of standardization and ‘ correctness ’ or with hierarchical dimensions of social structure ( or all of these ) , and they are usually felt to be institutional : that is , they are thought of as being prescribed by authority through the writing system , the educational system and other agencies ( for a relevant discussion , see J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 13 | Line managers are thought of as ‘ first class citizens ’ and staff are relegated in status to the second rank as expensive ‘ overheads ’ , who are not contributing anything of worth to the organisation . |
| 14 | Some systems are considered to be closed and others are thought of as open . |
| 15 | Typically , the Urgonian limestones are thought of as rudist reef deposits , and locally they show tremendous in situ growths of these aberrant bivalves ( for example , near the tragic city of Guernica in northern Spain ) . |
| 16 | The notions of system and homology are gone ; neither literature in general nor individual texts are thought of as systems , and consequently analogies with linguistic structures do not apply . |
| 17 | Victorian market towns tend to be regarded — if they are thought of at all — as slumbering relics of the past , places of little account that had been relegated to minor status by the new industrial cities . |
| 18 | The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t . |
| 19 | In a simple flat-file , the data are thought of as a two-way array of m variates ( columns ) measured on each of n units ( rows ) , thus |
| 20 | Too often , we are limited in thinking of ministry as those who either do or do not work where are thought of . |
| 21 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 22 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 23 | Buckminsterfullerene has often been thought of as the 3-D equivalent of benzene and so should be ‘ aromatic ’ , which means performing some of the chemical reactions for which benzene is noted . |
| 24 | Oral sex , although mentioned in literature and depicted in art spanning millennia , has been thought of and described by many people as a perversion of sexual practice . |
| 25 | It would have been thought of as demeaning their authority to have to explain their actions . |
| 26 | The well-planned research will not present difficulties at the analysis stage , since the purpose of the answers will have been thought of in advance , and all the analysis really does is to fill in the details . |
| 27 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 28 | If the responses are to be analysed without a great deal of trouble it is probable that the likely answers have been thought of beforehand and that certain likely response categories are already incorporated in the schedule itself . |
| 29 | Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters . |
| 30 | Anything you can think of to help has , of course , already been thought of by them ! |