Example sentences of "[n mass] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of public-sector funds ' investment in the stockmarket are kept murky , the better to make folk think the market is on the mend . |
| 2 | All over the rest of the Soviet Union , the Chernobyl explosion was a powerful force for making people think about the environment . |
| 3 | But they like to puzzle and tease and make people think , as well . |
| 4 | The sound of breaking timber made people think the roof was collapsing , and an even worse panic ensued . |
| 5 | He was , in fact , a Socrates of no mean accomplishment , and had given his life over to making people think , never an easy or popular task . |
| 6 | My speech impediment makes people think I 'm a bag of nerves , but it 's not true . |
| 7 | It aims to make people think of ‘ the good old days ’ when life was slow and simple and food was tasty and natural . |
| 8 | It makes people think they 're invincible , they can put a seatbelt on and they 'll be all right . |
| 9 | Why do some people think that faith is necessarily troubled by doubt but that knowledge is not ? |
| 10 | But you can achieve specific aims , and making people think about going to church instead of B & Q is a measurable objective . ’ |
| 11 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 12 | Every shift , they face people who have lost lovers , lost jobs or lost families through AIDS or ( more often ) the fear of AIDS ; every shift they have to help people think through the new consequences of future sex or face the possible results of past ignorance . |
| 13 | Whether we can at the same time make people think explicitly about women is a more difficult question . |
| 14 | The NARAL advertisement is an example of nonsexist language being used apparently as the norm , but in reality to make a point , to make people think of women in a context where ordinarily they might not ( as the inheritors of constitutional rights ) . |
| 15 | I would say , whatever is most effective in making people think about the implications of the expressions they use . |
| 16 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 17 | make people think more in terms of adoption for some children , but the problem is authorities do n't do anything , they just drift with them … |
| 18 | It would make the people think I was panicking . |
| 19 | and we also know that advertising reinforces smoking , it makes , makes people think that smoking is okay . |
| 20 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 's what we 've got to do , ’ I thought , ‘ just make people think . ’ |
| 22 | It 's quite useful to let people think you 're silly sometimes . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's nearly as clever to let people think you do n't care as it is to let them think you 're silly . |
| 24 | To make people think someone in the Martin family was the informer . |
| 25 | ‘ What do your people think of the political changes now going on ? ’ the Minister asked . |
| 26 | make people think you 're in . |
| 27 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 28 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 29 | Chatichai had not actually dismissed Chalerm , he said , " as that would make the people think that the government had acted under pressure from the military " . |
| 30 | Well we need to make people think and we need to make them care . |