be thought of as vs be thought as

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• He told me that the title mythologized banal and cruel men who didn't deserve to be thought of as super-villains.
• whereas older people cannot be thought of as a homogeneous group, and the diversity of older people must be respected and taken into consideration through specific policies as far as individual needs are concerned,
• Is it more important for me to be a good person Or to be thought of as a good person?
• Now, since no one knows when or if the poison has been released, until the box is opened, the cat can be thought of as both alive and dead.
• The Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on promoting gender equality in development cooperation can be thought of as an important point of reference for cooperation policies.
• This sort of European overfishing cannot be thought of as a wise move.
• It's just so much fun to be thought of as a piece of meat.
• A lengthy period in a stationary vehicle in overcrowded conditions and often in sweltering heat cannot be thought of as rest.
• I would just like to be thought of as more than The Flash PR flack.
• They can be thought of as sort of a time bomb.
• WR 104 can be thought of as an arrow pointing our way, if indeed it blows up as a gamma ray burst.
• Just like Schrodinger's cat, your potential relationship with Leonard right now can be thought of as both good and bad.
• So cancer could be thought of as a strange, short-lived, self-destructive life form - an evolutionary dead end.
• It should be thought of as a biological moonshot with a timetable.
• It was pointed out that treatment should be thought of as a package, which considers first- and second-line eradication therapies together.
• Institutions for occupational retirement provision cannot be treated as mere financial instruments - they should be thought of as a form of social protection.
• While the latter is a static decision, the former should be thought of as a dynamic process.
• I, and my friends and colleagues from Britain, do not want that kind of discourtesy to be thought of as normal, at least in this Chamber.
• Capturing and storing carbon cannot be thought of as a 'magic bullet' that will achieve climate targets.
• Vital services such as water and energy must also be thought of as having a special status.

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