Example sentences of "to think of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked children to think of a witches ' stew and this is what they suggested to put on a sign on the wall : |
| 2 | And I think for too long , we 've listened to the libertarians who want to think of the rights of the criminal all the time , and er , and do n't worry too much about the victim . |
| 3 | We tend to think of the reptiles as somehow past their ‘ prime ’ , but it would be more accurate to say that they had been displaced from the top jobs in nature , while more than holding their own in the shop floor . |
| 4 | In order to spell , one has to combine both kinds of sequence , one has to think of the syllables in the word in the correct order and remember them and remember how far you got , and also remember the sequence of visual symbols , i.e. letters on paper . |
| 5 | Thirdly , there is no difference in kind which entitles us to think of the concepts of civilizations other than our own as static and imprisoning . |
| 6 | I started to think of the stories Henry Mendez had told about Russell , piecing little bits of it together now . |
| 7 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 8 | The first Phoenix King had time to think of the daemons ' taunts . |
| 9 | He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ . |
| 10 | In Britain , Europe , and the eastern United States it is perhaps customary to think of the decades from the 1830s to the 1880s as the great era of railway-building . |
| 11 | ‘ I like to think of the shelves as being traditional : eye-catching with items on display in glass cases . |
| 12 | Once you really start to think of the components that can be changed in a room without too much ado you can come up with any number of ideas for a change of style , or more important , for adding style where none existed before . |
| 13 | Had there been mala fides the court would have had to think of the consequences of that . |
| 14 | She did n't want to have to think of the consequences of it . |
| 15 | ‘ Old age ’ is not a disease in itself , and it is not helpful to think of the problems which face older people as being caused ‘ by their age ’ . |
| 16 | He liked to think of the problems their unpaid bills might cause Gina . |
| 17 | In our dreaming we need also to think of the problems of style . |
| 18 | It is sometimes useful to think of the findings of science , that is to say the meaningful observations made and their linking together , as being contributions to a kitty which is the theory of the subject . |
| 19 | Try to think of the essentials , as any good coach will tell you . |
| 20 | The sky was aflame and though she tried not to think of the sunsets from Fernando 's cliff-top it was virtually impossible . |
| 21 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 22 | To allow herself even to think of the days , the weeks , the months or years stretching ahead would have been to precipitate disaster . |
| 23 | She looked in shop windows and willed herself to think of the days when she would be able to afford clothes like she saw there . |
| 24 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 25 | You 've got to think of the kids as well . |
| 26 | Fleetingly , because the wailing sirens outside forced him to think of the realities of the moment . |
| 27 | When admiring a piece of pottery it is sometime difficult to think of the individuals involved in its manufacture — not the proprietors or owners of the firm , but the workforce ; the potters , the kilnmen who stacked , fired and controlled the kilns , the printers , the decorators and the numerous other people who performed their often strenuous tasks in conditions ranging from good to awful . |
| 28 | And when they come to terms with the fact that they are n't , they have to think of the possibilities . ’ |
| 29 | When so much attention is paid to the vast power of multinational companies , it is perhaps wise to think of the numbers of international names that have disappeared from the scene , even during our own lifetime . |
| 30 | It may be convenient to think of an arms race between two lineages such as cattle and grass , or gazelles and cheetahs , but we should never lose sight of the fact that both participants have other enemies against whom they are simultaneously running other arms races . |