Example sentences of "[noun] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albini thinks of Big Black and says , ‘ We were a pretty good live band ’ . |
| 2 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 3 | Erm and so even if we had a full employment situation , we would still need an economic bonus strategy and I know the Conservatives wo n't agree with that , they were very reluctant the last administration to think about economic developments at all but , er eventually they realised the recession was quite er , quite serious . |
| 4 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 5 | Does the head teacher know what the faculty thinks on major matters ? |
| 6 | Thank God , Zen thought with obscure fervour . |
| 7 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 8 | Giving birth in Jamaica set Anne Lyons thinking about different attitudes towards sex , life and having children . |
| 9 | Just as though I were a bit daft , Isobel thought with sudden resentment . |
| 10 | Descriptions of the anatomy and physiology of individual bodies provide a constant , unitary basis for the psychological concept of the human subject , and make it less necessary for psychologists to think about problematic social influences on this subject . |
| 11 | It should make an interesting text for a graduate-level course in community ecology , help students to plan research and set any ecologist thinking about possible generalizations . |
| 12 | Spend a moment thinking about radiation-induced cancer . |
| 13 | He was a whizz at this business , Charity thought with reluctant admiration . |
| 14 | Daniel thought about dead Ann Maguire who , like Anna Van Gogh , the Dutch pastor 's wife , had named a younger , hopeful child for a dead one . |
| 15 | Most ancient and medieval writers thought of human life not as a continuous development but instead as punctuated by a number of sudden changes from one ‘ age ’ to the next . |
| 16 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 17 | Nizan 's war correspondence makes it clear that his resignation was motivated as much by a refusal to accept the moral integrity of the Soviet alliance with Hitler , as it was by a complete lack of faith in the French communist party leadership to think beyond blind and servile acquiescence to Moscow . |
| 18 | Another prerequisite therefore may be a closer matching of political and military strength which would oblige Israel to think in new ways . |
| 19 | Metternich in many ways thought of little else except liberalism and nationalism . |
| 20 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 21 | Despite all this , there remains a widespread ignorance and rejection of a sociological perspective when people think about human behaviour . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , implementation independence has had a powerful effect on AI thinking about metaphysical problems , and has been behind McCarthy 's insistence that AI must be defined as the study of intelligent mechanisms independent of their implementation in machines or brains , and hence to a general denial that AI is , in any strong sense , about machines . |
| 23 | There are also plans to set up a Lothian-wide Information Service for people thinking about residential or nursing home care . |
| 24 | He had become an Untouchable , Trent thought with sudden bitterness as he glanced up to catch a look , almost of horror , on Mariana 's face . |
| 25 | An academic , Peter thought with angry scorn . |
| 26 | This was partly due to the development of improved building techniques but was also because — until , that is , the recent property crash — growing rental income and lowering yields encouraged developers and landlords to think of new offices as investments that would increase in value year on year . |
| 27 | If female lodgers are regarded as ‘ available ’ , it is also clear what the popular newspapers think of female hitch-hikers . |
| 28 | It took an act of will to think of cool winds on hilltops or the pattern of water-shadows over wave-carved sand — things which I have always thought epitomise clarity and freshness and helped to divert my brain from dwelling on the contents of my stomach . |
| 29 | Some school staff requested information about Church thinking on Catholic schools . |
| 30 | And then , ‘ Well , Wolfprince ? ’ he said in his hissing , bubbling whisper , making Nuadu think of lipless jaws and clotting wounds . |