Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] thought of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 2 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 3 | We intend to reject this approach , and instead to embrace Dahl 's claim that ‘ every large corporation should be thought of as a social enterprise ; that is , as an entity whose existence and decisions can be justified only insofar as they serve public or social purposes ’ . |
| 4 | A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling . |
| 5 | A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , description is not a privileged area of objective study , and the presentation of socio-cultural conditions of other societies can not be viewed as a final explanation of other institutions and values , but must be thought of as part of the observer 's reconstruction of their own understanding of the institutions and values . |
| 11 | For you , all historical writing must be thought of as evidence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Vandalism , for example , might be thought of as a collection of clearly identifiable acts requiring sanction for the simple reason that they offend against the property , both individual and collective , of members in society . |
| 14 | Collectively , that does not leave many of us out ; and there can , of course , be few of us who have not at some time or another suffered from what might be thought of as a sexual problem albeit , perhaps , a trifling one . |
| 15 | Both the absence , and recent emergence , of disability arts and culture might be thought of as a mirror reflecting the current status of this tension between passive and active roles . |
| 16 | ( None of the other photographs shared this particular composition , though some were of personalities who could be thought of as ‘ hunky ’ men — Philip Schofield , for instance . ) |
| 17 | Other people may settle down happily : the noise means a safe background , a train on its way — eating the miles , with a rhythm and vibration which could be thought of as a loud , comforting lullaby . |
| 18 | None of these five constituencies is itself anything like an authentic community , and the notion that the two County constituencies could be thought of as parts of the same community as the three City constituencies is laughable . |
| 19 | Thus the path could be thought of as a period of price warfare followed by reversion to collusion . |
| 20 | Global aphasia could be thought of as the most extreme form of aphasia . |
| 21 | It revealed that an electron orbiting around the nucleus could be thought of as a wave , with a wave-length that depended on its velocity . |
| 22 | It was n't said that there were cells that actually corresponded to those features , not but nonetheless the output from the system could be thought of as a feature detection system . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The science and art of maintaining , breeding and displaying wild animals successfully in captivity may be thought of as something akin to gardeners with green fingers . |
| 25 | It may be thought of as a giant aquatic Guinea Pig weighing up to 60 kilograms . |
| 26 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 27 | ( Ullman 's work is thus closer to the spirit of Kant , and may be thought of as an attempt to articulate the intuitions and categories of space which structure and give meaning to the input stimulus . ) |
| 28 | They are essentially threatening or assaulting practices and , like silent or heavy-breathing telephone calls , may be thought of as the sexually-poor man 's rape ! |
| 29 | One is the formal , departmental structure ( see Figure 5.1 ) which recognizes the various specialisms within the business and leads to what may be thought of as an ‘ orthodox ’ , function-based management structure . |
| 30 | To say that the stance is one of knowing does not necessarily imply a belief in ‘ objectivity ’ ; the process may be thought of as a hermeneutic , interpretative one in which objective knowledge is not possible . |