Example sentences of "[noun sg] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Does the head teacher know what the faculty thinks on major matters ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Spend a moment thinking about radiation-induced cancer . |
6 | He was a whizz at this business , Charity thought with reluctant admiration . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Some school staff requested information about Church thinking on Catholic schools . |
11 | It is a study of Liberal Catholic thought in English religion . |
12 | The reader can no doubt think of other properties usually ascribed to Z which we have so far failed to mention . |
13 | Those who contemplated a new war thought about it in much the same way as a later generation thought about nuclear war : most of Peter Watkin 's film The War Game could have been made in the 1930s . |
14 | I could n't possibly compete in those stakes , so I racked my brain to think of small things which they might like . |
15 | One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing . |
16 | As the New World Order think about new uses for the SDI ‘ star wars ’ technology ( in particular the X-ray gun satellite that can evaporate caravans heading north up the A9 ) , some familiar names have been busy . |
17 | It is left as an exercise for the reader to think of other mechanisms which might be at work . |
18 | The worry takes two main forms : that American managers spend too much time thinking about short-term earnings rather than making long-term investments ; and that American firms face a higher cost of capital than Japanese or German rivals and so reject investment projects that others eagerly accept . |
19 | They spend so much time thinking about mathematical problems that they do not notice what is happening around them . |