Example sentences of "[adj] thought [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | No second thought at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That thought in particular kept her warm as they left the restaurant for the bitter streets of the city . |
| 10 | What 's your first thought about that ? |
| 11 | For instance , one thought of that nearly completed critical edition of Emily Dickinson 's poems , to be published by an American university press . |