Example sentences of "think of [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 2 | The current is you can think of it as the amount of water goes through , it 's actually the the current is the amount of electrons that get through in a second . |
| 3 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 4 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 5 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 6 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 7 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 8 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
| 9 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 10 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 11 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 12 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 13 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 14 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 15 | No he 's always , Fred , thou you think of him as the policeman do n't you that John Thaw . |
| 16 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 17 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 18 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 19 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 20 | Think of it as the woodworker 's equivalent to Dungeons and Dragons . |
| 21 | It 's a word you are unlikely to find in the dictionary but , if you think of it as the opposite to ‘ extrude ’ , meaning to thrust or push out , then the term becomes more understandable . |
| 22 | Erm so whether you think of it as the point is now whizzing round infinitely quickly , or it just stopped , |
| 23 | I always think of it as the engine-room of the house . |
| 24 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 25 | I want you to think of yourself as the driver of the car and to concentrate on the kinds of things you are normally aware of when you are driving . |
| 26 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 27 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |
| 28 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 29 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 30 | I want you to think of it as the room where you do your writing . |