Example sentences of "think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we go on to consider these studies of local politics , think about other major economic and social changes that have taken place within Britain since the mid-1970s — such as deindustrialization , or the large increase in home ownership . |
| 2 | So it is essential to check with your travel agent or bank on your destination 's quirks and then think about other possible needs , as money may not be your only consideration . |
| 3 | After that they think about other grown-ups . |
| 4 | [ 2 ] How we think of " God " affects what we think about other things too , for example especially whether or not " God " exists . |
| 5 | As the flat season begins and politicians think about reforming racing , the toffs of the turf are whinnying and stamping their feet . |
| 6 | I know that the Labour party is likely to conduct a vendetta against part-time workers , many of whom are women , although when women are asked what they think about part-time work , they reply that they very much appreciate it . |
| 7 | As the New World Order think about new uses for the SDI ‘ star wars ’ technology ( in particular the X-ray gun satellite that can evaporate caravans heading north up the A9 ) , some familiar names have been busy . |
| 8 | It was the ideal opportunity to learn and develop new ideas and think about new techniques . |
| 9 | ‘ Think about nice things ! ’ she would say to Henry as she tucked him into bed at night . |
| 10 | Think about tangible gifts you might buy yourself . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think any of the parties actually think about disabled people . ’ |
| 12 | Basically the minority who think about northern politics saw the good guy with his arm around the bad guy , at a time when bombs were still going off . |
| 13 | Especially when you 're not gon na like me for this because , you 're not gon na like me for this but I think one think about Foxy is he is two faced . |
| 14 | In the case of metalinguistic and comprehension tasks , the disembedded quality of the tasks is often related to the requirement that children think about particular words or phrases in isolation from their linguistic and non-linguistic contexts , and in isolation from their usual communicative functions . |
| 15 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 16 | Whatever you think about sliced bread ( for myself , I detest it ) , we all know the expression meant we did n't know how we managed before it existed . |
| 17 | Mr MacDuff asked jurors to ignore what they felt about the princesses ' awful behaviour , and think about fair compensation . |
| 18 | and then there is another thing about on top of it think about giant eggs , eggs |
| 19 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 20 | Now if you think about commercial potatoes and the ones that keep , the late ones , they are always harvested after the have died down , a long time after , in fact some of them are still digging up potatoes now . |
| 21 | Yeah Think about domestic silence . |
| 22 | Despite all this , there remains a widespread ignorance and rejection of a sociological perspective when people think about human behaviour . |
| 23 | I am going to take a risk and say what I think about local radio on the basis of my knowledge , personal knowledge , and these gentlemen can as it , as it were sort of say it 's , it 's not like that for them or whatever . |
| 24 | And considering how most of us think about old age , they are absolutely right . |
| 25 | but it is primary evidence and I think as primary evidence it has an extra value to the child 's records , and to the school 's records , over and beyond what |
| 26 | ‘ Think of Soviet Russia . |
| 27 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |
| 28 | I think that one of the great problems , and I 've made a number of studies of individual Puritans in the seventeenth century , is that we talk about Puritanism and we think of Victorian Nonconformity . |
| 29 | If you think of new ideas and details as you are writing , include them too . |
| 30 | Naturally , when we think of unwritten possibilities , we mean those realizations which " could have been " purely in terms of the language : we do not presume to delve into the psychology of the author , or to tamper with the text itself . |