Example sentences of "[to-vb] of [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monetary policy can not be given to an ‘ independent ’ bank because it makes no sense to talk of monetary policy as independent of economic policy . |
| 2 | To talk of human history as going through stages implies that there is an unavoidable link-up between technological systems , political systems , economic systems , kinship systems , etc . |
| 3 | The perceived world , however , seems to consist of stable objects as well as events occurring in them . |
| 4 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
| 5 | For it has led Darwin to think of each species as spreading out into varying conditions , over a range , over time . |
| 6 | The cultivation of love is to think of all things as lovers , and the whole mind should be pervaded with thoughts of love . |
| 7 | ‘ Also , it changes our view of ourselves and nature to think of all creatures as just genetic programmes in temporary configuration . |
| 8 | It is now wrong to think of such areas as having many individual sites , because , as with the uplands , what we are seeing and recording are complete landscapes . |
| 9 | Indeed , we only have to think of such people as Einstein , Picasso , Michelangelo , Goethe and George Bernard Shaw to realise that the brain is definitely capable of functioning — and functioning to great effect — well into one 's eighties or nineties . |
| 10 | You have only to think of such ordeals as driving tests or interviews . |
| 11 | If it is really necessary to think of mental states as having qualitative content ( and see Dennett , 1988 , for some powerful arguments that it is not ) , then it follows from functionalism that such qualia do not have causal interactions with other mental states or behaviour and are mere epiphenomena . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most useful distinction is to think of other disciplines as studying something else through discourse ; whereas discourse analysis has discourse as its prime object of study , and though it may take excursions into many different fields , must always be careful to return to the main concern . |
| 13 | This was partly due to the development of improved building techniques but was also because — until , that is , the recent property crash — growing rental income and lowering yields encouraged developers and landlords to think of new offices as investments that would increase in value year on year . |
| 14 | She ‘ would prefer to think of different languages as having the potential to exploit differing degrees of subjectivity ’ but she does not think there is ‘ any neutral ontology or world view which is objective and can serve as a universal yardstick . |
| 15 | A way of understanding this difference may be to think of formal features as in some way built up in our minds from the black marks which form writing on the page , or from the speech sounds picked up by our ears , while contextual features are somewhere outside this physical realization of the language in the world , or pre-existing in the minds of the participants . |
| 16 | Although procedures do exist that will explicitly send data directly to , for example , the serial port , it is more logical to think of these devices as " files " and use the standard file I/0 interface . |
| 17 | But the trick was to think of these properties as mappable ; that is , capable of being thought of as dimensions in space . |
| 18 | It is , however , useful to think of these phases as separate in principle . |
| 19 | And so in the course of time , we come to speak of these rights as equitable rights ( because they have their origin in the protection of Equity or the Court of Chancery ) or equally we refer to them as " beneficial rights " because they tell you not who has the legal title ( the legal estate ) but who is entitled to enjoyment or the benefit of the land . |
| 20 | Doubtless this means the end of straight arithmetical calculation , but it may still make sense to speak of informed judgements as to which patterns of pleasurable experience form more pleasurable lives . |
| 21 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |