Example sentences of "think [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's something you might think about as well , sitting at home , do you think you 're going to need care in due course , and if so , where 's it going to come from ? |
| 2 | They vary in their tolerance of adjustment : some are quite flexible and some can be adjusted quite radically and these we may think of as more grammatical . |
| 3 | Others are more fixed and allow little room for adjustment , and these we might think of as more lexical in character . |
| 4 | He finds himself at odds with a ‘ world order ’ he thinks of as noisy , dirty , ruthless , cruel , narrow-minded , increasingly uniform and joyless . |
| 5 | And suddenly there was a rampant little queen dying to violate everything you 've thought of as normal ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ In my country , ’ she began like a student from abroad , ‘ the English are often thought of as fey . ’ |
| 7 | In my country , ’ he mocked her slightly , ‘ Americans are often thought of as vulgar . ’ |
| 8 | Yet it contains a contradiction , since the class-struggle , or more generally the struggle against oppression , is thought of as always visibly at work in history in a clearly timeless way . |
| 9 | Armed with Lipton 's motto — ‘ Good architecture is good business ’ — they employ a wide range of architects , both established and up-and-coming , commonly thought of as ‘ good ’ . |
| 10 | Drawing on psychoanalysis , Rochlin ‘ rewrites ’ masculinity in a way which makes a virtue of what was hitherto thought of as , or experienced as , a defect : its much remarked insecurity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 13 | Writing , it 's true , is n't thought of as one of the problems of British cinema . |
| 14 | This , though , is not a normal year , or what many once thought of as normal . |
| 15 | W. B. YEATS 's obsession with Maud Gonne engendered several fine poems of yearning and regret , and is now thought of as one of literature 's great loves . |
| 16 | This is described by another commentator as ‘ a disposal of the grey , day-to-day business of reconciling interests , a fear of the pragmatic soiling of ideals through political compromise , a distaste for cool reason , which threatens to corrupt the hot dictates of the heart , the primacy given to principle , the loyalty to fundamentals , to ruthless coherence instead of to balance , to compromise , which is always thought of as ‘ lazy ’ and close to ‘ horse-trading ’ if not ‘ treachery ’ . ’ |
| 17 | He has pointed out , too , that if life is considered in this light , then some clays could be thought of as alive . |
| 18 | Originally the ocean floor was thought of as one desolate plain . |
| 19 | But we shall now see that the phenotypic effects of a gene need to be thought of as all the effects that it has on the world . |
| 20 | That actually means something — it 's not frivolous — so consequently it ca n't be classed as , or even thought of as , old fashioned . ’ |
| 21 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 22 | Other ‘ flags ’ can be thought of as developing within one part of the French flag . |
| 23 | To be patronised in a cloying , concerned manner , to be thought of as diseased or unclean , the result of some awful sin and therefore to be regarded as someone without hope — was her situation better than mine or worse ? |
| 24 | But because the conception of the Certificate did not originate within the recognized schools examination boards , indeed had nothing to do with the DES , it is now thought of as suitable more for further education than for schools , and it seems to invoke all over again the old distinction between ‘ education ’ and ‘ training ’ . |
| 25 | Many foods which were once thought of as ‘ exotic ’ are now readily available in every High Street . |
| 26 | Curves which are monotonic and contain only one bend can be thought of as one of the four quadrants of a circle . |
| 27 | Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents . |
| 28 | For ease of reference , the various steps are numbered , but the divisions between the steps should never be thought of as hard and fast . |
| 29 | Idea the participant observer is virtually a spy , since to be accepted completely in a particular capacity within a group the observer should be thought of as actually being in nothing but that capacity . |
| 30 | Meat should not be eaten more than once a day ; and fish is increasingly thought of as healthier — oily fish is useful in the prevention of heart disease and arthritis — and you may feel it is worth substituting fish for meat as a main meal twice a week . |