Example sentences of "[adj] think of [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 | From Luke 's description of the response , some thought of that as an outrage . |
| 3 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 4 | It is now wrong to think of such areas as having many individual sites , because , as with the uplands , what we are seeing and recording are complete landscapes . |
| 5 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 6 | Still , it is essential to the story that such thoughts be entertained , as indeed Gandalf also says to Pippin : ‘ If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards , you must be prepared to think of such things ’ ( 11 , 199 ) . |
| 7 | I suppose the truth was , in those days anyway , I just plain liked it " Seems funny to think of that now . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First of all , is it sensible to think of masculine/feminine as polar opposites ? |
| 10 | We 're far too tribal to think of central power . ’ |
| 11 | Musical ethnologists will no doubt pull their hair out at eh mere thought of such cross-cultural impurity , but the results sound pretty good to my untrained ears . |
| 12 | Even in this era of psycho-history , it is impossible to think of any other historical character of note whose public persona has been so submerged , and private morality so relentlessly pursued with such ruthless subjectivity on the part of those who have written about her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For it is easy to think of other examples where the lexical choice will lead to a further proliferation of senses . |
| 15 | Sociologists wanted to have their results accepted as scientifically accurate , have worked in the same way , but not always successfully , when dealing with people , is not always to easy to think of all the things which may affect the result . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As we mentioned in Chapter 7 , it is probably inappropriate to think of normal spontaneous speech as consisting of sentences . |
| 19 | It is hard to think of many foreign governments the KGB has overthrown as , for example , the CIA did in Chile . |
| 20 | It is hard to think of many instances where Russia has been able to outsmart the West politically as the result of its intelligence operations . |
| 21 | ( Chiang Kai-shek was not specifically mentioned but it is hard to think of other forces that might have been available . ) |
| 22 | It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart . |
| 23 | Over the last few miles to your overnight spot it 's often hard to think of much else except getting a hot meal and a drink — quickly . |
| 24 | ASK WHAT HE 'S AFRAID OF , and he finds it hard to think of one thing . |
| 25 | Of all the products in the world , it is hard to think of one with which English soccer has less need to be associated than lager . |
| 26 | It 's hard to think of another . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it makes the document so much more ‘ professional ’ that it 's hard to think of another single step that can such benefits . |
| 28 | I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire . |
| 29 | It is hard to think of any British rock , for instance , that 's sufficiently ignorant to consist of nothing but screamworthiness alone . |
| 30 | As a result it is hard to think of any technical innovations , whether in the military or civilian field , that Russia does not know about . |