Example sentences of "[modal v] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers and perhaps civil servants may think of local authorities as useful agents for carrying out policies decided nationally in government departments and approved by Parliament . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ? |
| 4 | Letter to the Sports Editor : Top players should think of lesser lights |
| 5 | He 'll think for sure I arranged this ! ’ |
| 6 | And here you might think of other kinds of dreams that are so-called typical dreams , like for instance erm , er , has anybody had this dream where you want to go to the bathroom but ca n't find it ? |
| 7 | The teacher might think of extra resources : a box of artefacts ( some of which may be replicas ) which the pupils can handle ; a bookcase with additional reference materials including dictionaries and atlases as well as appropriate texts of higher and lower levels or a selection of visual materials for study . |
| 8 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 9 | ‘ I could think of individual old people who were inappropriately placed in long-stay settings , or who were creating excessive stresses at home on relatives … and I could see that something more substantial in the community needed to be provided . |
| 10 | The partial remedy , for no one could think of exhaustive response , was to clear London and other big cities of children aged under fifteen , the sick and the handicapped : all those who were of more hindrance than help to the defence effort . |
| 11 | Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged . |
| 12 | The US State Department 's response was that it needed to see the blueprints on European defence before it could think of pouring concrete . |
| 13 | The art shop in Covent Garden was the largest she could think of offhand , and the minute she walked in she knew that she had done the right thing . |
| 14 | For a start , he could think of precious few men who would consort with prostitutes . |
| 15 | You could safely disregard Paul 's opinion that marriage was a prerequisite of life at the top , because Owen could think of notable exceptions , Kitchener included . |
| 16 | We 're sure that machine knitters will think of other uses — perhaps those who can use a sewing machine could run up a fabric tool and accessory holder which could be suspended off the side of the knitting table ! |
| 17 | A watchdog group reckons many viewers will think of black people when they see the furry orang-utan in the electricity commercial . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No doubt you can think of reflex behaviours you have learned in this way . |
| 20 | Everyone , is says , can think of black sheep of their acquaintance . |
| 21 | You can think of ordinary , real time as a horizontal line , going from left to right . |
| 22 | They 'll need to patch up their wounded defence and wounded soldiers , before they can think of premier league football next year . |
| 23 | What is , or is not , consistent with human dignity is obviously a value judgment , which can neither be confirmed nor refuted ; and , of course , one can think of other activities that could be construed as being inconsistent with human dignity , which are not criminalized . |
| 24 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 25 | And we can think of other people like Mother Theresa too , in the face of so much er you know what people have said to her is , you know , do n't you think that er what you 're doing is just a drop in the ocean ? |
| 26 | ‘ I can think of other and better things … ’ |
| 27 | I am innovative and can think of new ways of using old materials , such as making toys from everyday household items |
| 28 | Erm perhaps you can think of daft things like think of someone kicking the kettle . |
| 29 | No doubt you can think of various acts which are crimes in this country but not in other countries ; and of behaviour which is against the criminal law of other societies but which is not criminal in Britain . |
| 30 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |