Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 2 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |
| 3 | We feel that we will be criticized if an old person is found in less than perfect conditions , and we will be thought of as neglecting them . |
| 4 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 5 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 6 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |
| 7 | They can be thought of as seven tests to be applied . |
| 8 | It may be thought of as a giant aquatic Guinea Pig weighing up to 60 kilograms . |
| 9 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 10 | It may be thought of as a reaction against the ‘ classical ’ form of bureaucracy ( and unity of command — ie. one man , one boss ) by establishing a structure of dual command . |
| 11 | To say the least , it is unfortunate that a multiply influenced process with many stages in it should be thought of by sociobiological proponents and their critics alike ( e.g. Solomon , 1978 ) as having an invariant outcome and a single explanation . |
| 12 | This is , of course , a simplified picture of a sense-spectrum : it should be thought of as having , at least potentially , many dimensions , and as continually growing , amoeba-like . |
| 13 | Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music . |
| 14 | It must be thought of as just one of the tools available to business today for managing the ever increasing volumes of information . |
| 15 | In the final analysis , it must be thought of as the eternal and original artistic power that calls into being the entire world of phenomena . |
| 16 | It might be thought of as over-reacting but the development of local monopolies and cartels is just conceivable . |
| 17 | It might be thought of as repressive but they actually enjoy it . |
| 18 | It would seem unlikely before the Hadrianic period at the earliest , if comparison is made with some other northern sites such as Aldborough ; it might be thought to be more likely under Severus or Caracalla , when the whole northern frontier region was extensively reorganized . |
| 19 | The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him . |
| 20 | This was a very hot body , spewing its heat and gases copiously into space : it can be thought of as a planet-sized erupting volcano . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It can be thought of as a kind of organisational ‘ cement ’ . |
| 23 | In a sense it can be thought of as a direction of time that is at right angles to real time . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |