Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's think of the general model right . |
| 2 | In the same way , we may think of the ideal encounter of a particle with a molecule as an elastic collision in which no energy is transferred . |
| 3 | Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal . |
| 4 | We may think of the initial photon as being absorbed , so that the molecule is excited to a ‘ virtual ’ state , whose lifetime is so short that there is effectively immediate re-emission of a photon whose energy may be different from hν by a quantum of vibrational energy . |
| 5 | We must think of the nervous system encoding the perceived world ; and in trying to understand this process we should consider not individual spikes but their potentially infinite combinations . |
| 6 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
| 7 | Imagine then what Africans in South Africa must think of the miraculous transplant surgery of Dr Christian Barnard ! |
| 8 | This approach is typified by Mackay , who has argued that because injury reduction was more realistic in the short term than accident prevention , one should think of the front end of a car ‘ primarily as a structure with which to hit a pedestrian ’ . |
| 9 | The content of the examination syllabus must consist of the detailed study of individual texts by both male and female writers as well as wider reading in all of the three main literary genres of prose , poetry and drama . |
| 10 | You should select of the following options which may only be done when the combination of old and new mail is not zero : — |
| 11 | Allegra 's death is only one of the numerous and heart-rending deaths of young children in this book — which should dispose of the comforting myth that mothers suffered less acutely when child mortality was so high that death could be no surprise . |
| 12 | Oh , I should say of the four science schools on average we 've got maybe thirty or forty titles from each , so that 's about well certainly well over a hundred titles altogether . |
| 13 | Society might disapprove of the adulterous relationship flaunted so openly , but Lord John believed that Jane 's beauty excused everything . |
| 14 | A lot of people will probably relate it to that commercial I think , or they 'll think of the little bunny rabbits in Duracell , that 's what I thought |
| 15 | We might think of the real essence of a triangle , ‘ three lines enclosing a space ’ , as instructions for making such a figure : it is how that figure is constituted . |
| 16 | Similarly , to take another case , we might think of the real essence of a circle , a figure which bears a constant relation to some one point , as an indication of how , along Hobbesian lines , to generate or construct one . |
| 17 | The only criticism one might make of the Labour party 's proposal is that it is not large enough . |
| 18 | One group might consist of the younger consumer end of the market and one might be business women of thirty-plus . |
| 19 | Not only might one living body consist of different particles of matter , but also different bodies ( mine and the sheep that I eat , for example ) , might consist of the same matter . |
| 20 | It is difficult to see , however , what interests we might have of the necessary importance whose realisation depends on owning corporate property . |
| 21 | There may well be a modest marble tombstone for Mr Dowd somewhere in Saratoga Springs ; but each time the television continuity announcer advertises a forthcoming programme as showing at ‘ 9 pm Eastern , 8 Central and Mountain ’ then one might say of the late Professor , si monumentum requiris , circumspice . |
| 22 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 23 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 24 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 25 | and could tell of the netted lemon groves |
| 26 | In the meantime , of course , the Administration could dispose of the general inspector 's office to another party while being sure of the political interest of Deacon Murray , a result which in all probability was anticipated by the astute Milton . |
| 27 | I used to smell of the old cows . |
| 28 | I think that one of the outstanding erm criticisms that I would make of the whole programme , in research with animals , is the fact that only two licences have been revoked I think you said |
| 29 | I shall speak of the organic unities which Moore dismisses as nonsensical as ‘ organic wholes ’ to distinguish them from ‘ organic unities ’ in Moore 's sense . |
| 30 | Later , in City Life magazine , Morrissey would speak of the backstage situation . |