Example sentences of "think in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 2 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 3 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 4 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 5 | It was thought in mediaeval times to have magic associations and was hung over doors on Midsummer 's Eve to ward off evil spirits . |
| 6 | Not all writers , however , thought in national terms ; the distinguished canon lawyer William Lyndwood was not prepared to identify patria with regnum , and instead thought of it as equivalent to regio , which for him meant the province of Canterbury ( 27 , p.172a ) . |
| 7 | It is a study of Liberal Catholic thought in English religion . |
| 8 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 9 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 10 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 11 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 12 | Yet , have n't we tried to teach and think in non-racial history ? |
| 13 | Their devotion to the group makes it less likely that they will think in creative ways that are tangential to , or radically different from , those of the group . |
| 14 | McFarlane argued that on balance England did not lose from the war , and if one thinks in strict cash terms , the evidence supports him . |
| 15 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 16 | That thought in particular kept her warm as they left the restaurant for the bitter streets of the city . |
| 17 | He argued that Scotland has ‘ psychologically ’ moved over a watershed from belief in the public sector to belief in the private sector , although there were still too many public institutions , mainly local authorities , who thought in public ownership terms . |
| 18 | How could they , she thought in sudden sentiment , and the anger carried her on to the next street . |
| 19 | A home , she thought in sudden pain , which I 'll never share with him now . |
| 20 | Surely it could n't be Jake ? she thought in startled panic . |
| 21 | No , I 'll bet you 're not , she thought in silent anger . |
| 22 | What facilities are available to me to respond to my assignment in multimedia terms ? a question which should importantly remind us all of the ready way in which many young people today think in visual or audio-visual terms . |
| 23 | I think in general term they will go along with the erm the de-furbishment or the destruction of the er but my understanding is they are reserving their judgement until they 've seen some version of the plan . |
| 24 | Yes I think , I think in general , er it , it was , it was occasionally erm heard of in other undertakings where this happened . |
| 25 | Yes , yes , I think in , I think in general one can certainly say that the more , and this touches on what said about personality types if a personality has a strongly developed superego themselves , they 're likely to be very independent , sometimes to the point of arrogance . |
| 26 | I mean in some cases be left with the ward sister and I think in general that 's who they will nominate . |
| 27 | My Lords er the the er th the point r really abou about all this I think is a fairly , a fairly simple one that we are agreed I think in general , that police authorities are better if they are smaller and the real point that is concerning er N |
| 28 | I think in general terms , we were having a discussion only the other day , and thinking of possible applications of one form of another of microprocessors , only very generally I might add , but if we thought of an application which would save paying someone 's salary on a weekly or monthly basis , then that would be attractive for obvious reasons , you know , that the sort of when one totals up wages and salaries over a full year then that 's a significant saving to be made and therefore it justifies the initial investment cost in whatever the system might be . |
| 29 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |
| 30 | I think in general cars , the newer vehicles , are becoming more and more reliable . |