Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 7 | It is a study of Liberal Catholic thought in English religion . |