Example sentences of "can [be] think [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cells in different parts of the embryo can be thought of as developing along quite different pathways , diverging more and more in character . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Both of them can be thought of as being exercised in varying degrees , so that observation of people can be carried out with varying degrees of participation and varying degrees of control . |
| 4 | This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling . |
| 5 | The Mournes can be thought of as being in two sections : the higher , more popular eastern range , where they ‘ sweep down to the sea ’ and the lower , even less frequented , western range . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 10 | What they share , despite their differences , is an insistence that there is no ‘ original ’ wholeness or unity in the self , nor a ‘ real self ’ which can be thought of as in some way underlying the self of everyday life . |
| 11 | This can be thought of as comprising the following clauses : Roger has a dog The dog is black It is called Ben These can be combined in various ways which would " score " in a count of dependent clauses , e.g. : Roger has a dog , Ben , who is black , Roger has a black dog , who is called Ben , while the initial version does not . |
| 12 | All these particle facts can be put together in the following way : A state ( the photon polarised along x " ) can be thought of as composed of a combination ( the technical term is a superposition ) of other states ( the photon polarised along y , which is transmitted , and the photon polarised along x , which is not transmitted ) . |
| 13 | The problem can be thought of as maximizing consumer surplus ( here total surplus minus resource costs ) arising from the set of products , subject to the breakeven constraint , i.e. choose y 1 to y n to maximize : subject to unc where R(Y) is the revenue accruing from sales of all the products and x is a variable of integration . |
| 14 | Value for money can be thought of as consisting of three elements : economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 15 | This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters . |
| 16 | This can be thought of as entering the three main two-dimensional views ( front , side and plan ) into the space to lie either on the axis or on the surface of the local space brick ( see Figure 3.6 ) . |
| 17 | An occam process can be thought of as acting in steps : a step is either a single communication or the act of successful termination . |
| 18 | Brightness masking can be thought of as operating primarily at the feature detector level in Figure 11 ; by reducing the discriminability of target features , it makes feature detection difficult ( or impossible , if the mask is bright enough ) . |
| 19 | The circulation pattern can be thought of as made up of several contributions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Each subtractive primary can be thought of as taking away a component from white ; thus yellow is , ‘ minus blue ’ and magenta is ‘ minus green ’ so a mixture of yellow and magenta inks will produce white minus blue minus green — in other words , red . |
| 23 | Electromagnetic energy can be thought of as moving in a wave-like pattern at the speed of light . |
| 24 | Informally , the idea is that every path in a graph which passes through a node n can be thought of as having a score f(n) consisting of the cost from the start of the search to that node g(n) , and the cost from the node to the terminal state , h(n) . |
| 25 | In this sense , as alternative ways to meet the same need , the two markets can be thought of as being in competition . |
| 26 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 27 | It can be thought of as comprising cascaded identical symmetric T or Π-sections , the circuit diagrams of which are presented in figures 9. l(b) and ( c ) . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |