Example sentences of "[adj] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When some thought of major change is initiated , all those affected will have their own interpretations of what is going on , based on their existing knowledge and experience . |
| 2 | While acquisitions , disposals and foreign subsidiaries all feature , I do not believe that it is particularly difficult — if you have a basic understanding and are willing to think in broad financial accounting terms . |
| 3 | In any case , it is usually easier to think in concrete terms than abstract ones ; easier to reify knowledge and turn it into a thing . |
| 4 | There are a number of studies which suggest that it is sensible to think of subjective risk when driving as a continually fluctuating quantity which may be related to both estimated and objective risk . |
| 5 | First of all , is it sensible to think of masculine/feminine as polar opposites ? |
| 6 | We 're far too tribal to think of central power . ’ |
| 7 | Although the specific example of extraordinary items and FRED 1 does not support Mr Damant 's argument particularly well , it is easy to think of hypothetical examples that would . |
| 8 | For it is easy to think of other examples where the lexical choice will lead to a further proliferation of senses . |
| 9 | It is easy to think of obvious examples : the child who suddenly loses both parents in a car accident ; the outbreak of war , necessitating a dramatic change of surroundings and circumstances ; a house fire or some other disaster befalling the family . |
| 10 | Mr Gorbachev , and others , should remember that a shrinking of American protection for Germany could raise the tricky issue of how Germany will defend itself — including the until now unthinkable thought of German nuclear missiles . |
| 11 | As we mentioned in Chapter 7 , it is probably inappropriate to think of normal spontaneous speech as consisting of sentences . |
| 12 | ( Chiang Kai-shek was not specifically mentioned but it is hard to think of other forces that might have been available . ) |
| 13 | But taking our morality from the Bible does not necessarily mean merely taking it on trust and authority , and abandoning all thought of moral knowledge . |
| 14 | He did not understand that she felt so shrivelled and drained , and all thought of sexual relations was abhorrent to her — she was not a fit partner , and shrank from his attentions with loathing . |
| 15 | It might well be more prudent to think of climatic influences on forms and erosion rates rather than climatically dominated landforms . |
| 16 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
| 17 | This has effectively banished explicit work on religious concepts in most primary schools , because children in those age-groups are deemed unable to think in abstract terms , but only concretely . |
| 18 | Be that as it may , since that first witticism concerning the gypsies , I have not been able to think of other such witticisms quickly enough . |
| 19 | For some things you may find it difficult to see how to improve on them or you will not be able to think of suitable substitutes . |
| 20 | So whereas in the past we may have been able to think of single user types and single solutions to meet those users . |
| 21 | That thought in particular kept her warm as they left the restaurant for the bitter streets of the city . |
| 22 | But it would be anachronistic to think of Western Europe around c .700 as homogeneous Western , Christian , Latin culture , shared among nations with any definite sense of forming a community aspiring to be ‘ Western Christendom ’ . |
| 23 | The West should take time off from being Gorbacharmed to think about recent events in Russia 's outer empire and the awkward question they raise : how to undo Europe 's post-1945 division without undoing its post-1945 stability . |
| 24 | In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again . |
| 25 | However , it is possible to think of other things to add in such as ‘ one shake of the elbow ’ but it is a matter of choice . |
| 26 | But it is quite possible to think of plausible cases . |
| 27 | It is never difficult to think of suitable gifts to take to elderly people who live alone , but apart from the obvious ones it is worth remembering that things like home-made cakes , biscuits , jam or marmalade which they may no longer bother to make for themselves are particularly appreciated . |
| 28 | Apart from Nigel Lawson , Nicholas Ridley , Cecil Parkinson , and Sir Geoffrey Howe , it was difficult to think of other Cabinet ministers who would be regarded as economically ‘ dry ’ or ideologically ‘ Thatcherite ’ , and both Lawson and Sir Geoffrey had well-publicized differences of opinion with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 29 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 30 | It is not difficult to think of female names which begin with an unstressed syllable ( Patricia , Elizabeth , Rebecca ) , but male names are very rare ( Jerome , Demetrius ) . |