Example sentences of "[noun] think in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When opposition groups thought in terms of thousands of pounds to finance their case , the Board thought in millions . |
| 2 | Describing conventional education as a ‘ conveyor belt ’ and noting ‘ the dullness of the eldest pupils compared with the brightness and self-sufficiency of the infants ’ , Denys Thompson of the Scrutiny group thought in 1932 that while education was ‘ very busy mass-producing interchangeable little components for the industrial machine ’ the concern of education ‘ should be to turn out ‘ misfits ’ ’ , not spare parts ' . |
| 3 | The need to think in these terms , and to build in systematic and continuous assessment of progress , is an unexpected by-product of the legislation , and probably a bonus . |
| 4 | It is nonsense to think in those terms . |
| 5 | Another prerequisite therefore may be a closer matching of political and military strength which would oblige Israel to think in new ways . |
| 6 | Sometimes mistaken for the name of a tribe of redskins , the word ‘ Hooliganism ’ established itself in Russia with such authority and incomprehensible rapidity that one observer thought in 1912 that it was ‘ as if it had long been expected , as if necessary for the filling of an empty space ’ . |
| 7 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |
| 8 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 9 | It is a study of Liberal Catholic thought in English religion . |
| 10 | This discourse of ‘ as good as a man ’ was to recur frequently in interviews with the women ; certainly there were some schools which had taught their pupils to think in those terms . |
| 11 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 12 | By forcing employees to think in new ways , and to co-operate with other business units , divisional barriers are being blurred and breached . |