Example sentences of "[be] thought [prep] [prep] [noun] " 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 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 3 | Cattle eat grass , and might therefore be thought of as enemies of grass . |
| 4 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 5 | The residuals from the fitted line can be thought of as values for a variable which have been adjusted to take the explanatory variable into account . |
| 6 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 7 | In the simplest terms , these can be thought of as particles which at the moment do not in fact exist — but one day might . |
| 8 | People said at the time that the war had been fought for the children , for a better future , and the 1950s represent a watershed in the historical process by which children have come to be thought of as repositories of hope , and objects of desire . |
| 9 | These decision points can be thought of as nooses that pull together two or more nodes in a tree . |
| 10 | The price paid for a warrant can be thought of as part of the subscription price for a share which may ( or may not ) be issued at a future date . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 13 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |
| 14 | For you , all historical writing must be thought of as evidence . |
| 15 | A CHROMOSOME may be thought of as DNA coated with a protein . |
| 16 | The tracks can be thought of as patterns of gene activity and the ball as a developing cell . |
| 17 | To use yet another metaphor , moulding of form can be thought of as metalworking ; patterning like painting . |
| 18 | In very broad terms these may be thought of as divisions based on social class . |
| 19 | It is appropriate to add a few words at this point that might help avert the possibility of becoming involved in any extensive debate about whether associative changes of the sort described here should really be thought of as instances of perceptual learning , producing changes in the perceived similarity of the stimuli . |
| 20 | Thus an account of housing development in North Shields provides us with a background to inter-war and immediate post-war developments in both owner-occupied and council housing , whereas Cramlington 's owner-occupied estates can be thought of as suburbanization produced by developer builders . |
| 21 | Orcs and Savage Orcs are good fighting troops and can therefore be thought of as core units , but they can also be used as quality supporting troops if armed with missile weapons . |
| 22 | Although sums of money are represented as decimal numbers , they can easily be thought of as pounds and pence , or pence alone : the idea of decimals can therefore be avoided . |
| 23 | What Irigaray describes as mimétisme can also be thought of as parody . |
| 24 | I myself , apparently , was to be thought of as Baby Tuckoo . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Hart in his book Law , Liberty and Morality ( 1963 ) argued that the law was not and ought not to be a tool for ‘ the enforcement of morals ’ , in particular in the field of sexual morals , where the activities condemned may ‘ involve nothing that would ordinarily be thought of as harm to other persons ’ . |
| 27 | The differentiation of the different kinds of blood cells can be thought of in terms of the branching pathway model . |
| 28 | What takes place between the I and the You is a human transaction which can also be thought of in terms of gesture . |
| 29 | Intersection and union of sets can be thought of in terms of the shaded regions in Fig. 0.1 ; such figures are called Venn diagrams . |
| 30 | Modernist organizations may be thought of in terms of Weber 's typification of bureaucratized , mechanistic structures of control , as these were subsequently erected upon a fully rationalized base of divided and deskilled labour . |