Example sentences of "to think about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I certainly do n't want to think about the music of Mozart : that 's his affair not mine . |
| 2 | You need to think about the person 's circumstances , and that 's where it 's great , that you can come back and sit down with your manager , and he 's going to say to you well what do you think . |
| 3 | Now I want you to think about the person who he 's going to talk to . |
| 4 | And I want you to think about the question that I ask you but I do n't want you to speak out the answers . |
| 5 | I assume you did n't want to think about the kitchen ? |
| 6 | Sometimes this is done quite deliberately — he refuses to think about the event at all — while at other times it is his subconscious mind which ensures that he is no longer troubled by it . |
| 7 | Small wonder perhaps that many buried their heads in the sand and refused even to think about the event until the last possible moment . |
| 8 | To understand why Idealism became dominant in the early years one only has to think about the event that led to the establishment of the subject , namely , the First World War . |
| 9 | He tried to think about the Wall . |
| 10 | I also took part in conferences of Burma missionaries in Lahore , Lucknow and Mussourie , in which we began to think about the revival of our considerable educational work . |
| 11 | ‘ SSDs have to think about the pace and level of training . |
| 12 | So all church members are being asked to think about the issue and make up their minds before it comes back to the General Synod for the final vote . |
| 13 | If my hon. Friend can make a case , we shall have to think about the issue . |
| 14 | ‘ You have until tomorrow to think about the proposition . |
| 15 | The monotonous motion of his arm released his mind to think about the discovery in the shed . |
| 16 | Paul does not want to think about the Poll Tax . |
| 17 | If your experiment involves large groups of informants , then you also need to think about the significance of numerical results you may produce ; and for this , guidebooks about experimentation and the use of statistics may be needed ( see sections 1 and 4 of the Booklist for suggestions ) . |
| 18 | negative and excluding people , but I also think that labels can be very , very positive and very , very important and that 's , I think that 's why erm , people thought up the word feminism and yeah , okay we have to think about the word and we have to think about what it means for us so yeah , a lot of pe , er people do n't want to call themselves feminists because the label has such negative connotations , but it does also mean very positive things , it 's a way of bringing people together , it 's a way of supporting each other , it 's , you know it 's , brings solidarity to the movement and people need labels . |
| 19 | Virtually every biologist who cares to think about the subject believes that all living matter has evolved . |
| 20 | It is it 's more of a little story and it 's not a front page shocker which I think is what we said we 'd set out to write , a front page shocker okay so I think you 've got to think about the kind of words you use . |
| 21 | They think , they seem to think that we want to think about the election all the time . |
| 22 | The answer to the first part of the question is that communication problems can be caused both by the sender and the receiver , but if you are frequently misinterpreted you may need to think about the message and the manner in which it is being transmitted . |
| 23 | He would need to confess them , be shrived , for even to think about the King 's death was treason . |
| 24 | In particular , and most importantly , we shall need to think about the origin of these blocks of land as cohesive units , and the date of definition of the boundaries . |
| 25 | This is just one example of many which encourages all of us to think about the past or the future — but never to be aware of the present . |
| 26 | ‘ But they 're not meant to think about the past , you know , and life before Entering , they really start from when they became Brides of Christ . |
| 27 | It is tiring to think about the past . |
| 28 | After the fall of France in June 1940 there was little time to think about the shape of the post-war world . |
| 29 | Rawls suggests that the appropriate way to think about the development of a theory of justice is from the so-called original position behind ‘ a veil of ignorance ’ . |
| 30 | The most influential philosopher to think about the problem of the ownership of empty land , John Locke , served as a secretary and adviser to yet another of the courtier-backed expansion schemes of Charles II 's reign ; he was agent to Lord Ashley , who later on as Lord Shaftesbury became a famous Whig leader but in 1663 was a well-placed courtier and one of a group who got a charter for a colony south of Virginia to be called Carolina . |