Example sentences of "thought [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Muni was obviously thought of as a major selling point and the public were urged to see this latest offering of the man who ‘ appears in fewer films than any of the big stars ’ .
2 A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling .
3 A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling .
4 The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability .
5 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 .
6 Read the old sagas and there you will see it is thought of as a great living force .
7 Theudebert was certainly thought of as a great and powerful king .
8 Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ .
9 Notice that the CDR can be thought of as a weighted mean of the age-specific rates , using age class population numbers as weights , i.e. CDR =
10 which can be thought of as a temporary , unexpected rise or fall in income ( for example , an unexpected increase in income resulting from a win at the races , or a temporary fall in income resulting from a short period of unemployment ) .
11 Again , homosexuality is thought of as a narcissistic repudiation of sexual difference .
12 Assistance by way of representation ( ABWOR ) is best thought of as a simple and easily administered type of civil legal aid for particular types of litigation .
13 Party membership is often thought of as a static phenomenon .
14 The company is not thought of as a good employer .
15 A possible world is to be thought of as a complete way in which the world might have been .
16 Although popularly thought of as a female offence , women do not outnumber men among those found guilty .
17 It is not to be thought of as a mere " imitation of nature " .
18 Fascism was not thought of as a separate subject on the school curriculum , but the history of how Mussolini came to power was dealt with at length at the end of the modern history text-books .
19 The state can be conveniently thought of as a rational , unitary decision-maker ( Allison , 1971 , p. 32 ) which has one set of specified goals , one set of perceived options , and a single estimate of the consequences which follow from each alternative available to it .
20 Reflection is often thought of as a backward looking process .
21 More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register .
22 So great were such feats , and so very great was Charles , that countless legends sprung up around him , and his rule began to be thought of as a golden age .
23 This was a very hot body , spewing its heat and gases copiously into space : it can be thought of as a planet-sized erupting volcano .
24 In a simple flat-file , the data are thought of as a two-way array of m variates ( columns ) measured on each of n units ( rows ) , thus
25 Each one can be thought of as a chemical factory which , in the course of delivering its primary product of usable energy , processes more than 700 different chemical substances , in long , interweaving assembly-lines strung out along the surface of its intricately folded internal membranes .
26 It could well have been the jealousy of the older brother , what caused him to be thought of as a black sheep .
27 Its design to avoid significant loading at the output or input has already been considered in section 3.7 for the special case of a direct input , which can be thought of as a sinusoidal input of zero frequency , but the discussion and conclusions reached apply equally well whatever the time dependence of the input signal .
28 Given that science is often thought of as a laboratory-based activity , rather than as a " bookish " subject , it is interesting to note that in three of the four schools , science departments had pioneered activities to develop basic library and information retrieval skills as part of their lower-school curriculum .
29 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 .
30 While ( 9 ) does imply that he actually swam across the lake on several occasions , all that it in fact expresses is the past existence of the ability to swim , so that swimming is thought of as a potential event and not as an actualization .
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