Example sentences of "[prep] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary 's quite good coming up with new ideas and new lines of thought on various subjects |
| 2 | That term did n't last long , though , and ‘ Plate Tectonics ’ really came into being when scientists all over the world , such as Isacks , Oliver , Sykes , Le Pichon and Morgan ( to name but a few ) , began to apply the new way of thinking to specific parts of the globe . |
| 3 | So you 're sort of thinking at different levels . |
| 4 | Overall , the crux of this six-point programme is the claim that Realism is a scientific way of thinking about international relations . |
| 5 | Nevertheless this is , as she says , a way of thinking about international politics which is still more or less in its infancy . |
| 6 | Sure enough , we would expect the input systems to ensure that the right kinds of distinctions are drawn — between contour changes that define occlusion and those which define disappearance , for example — but this surely does not mean that the possessor of these input systems is capable of thinking about unperceived entities . |
| 7 | Charles Handy redefined the term ‘ conflict ’ to offer a useful way of thinking about destructive and constructive conflict and how it might be managed . |
| 8 | The objectives in Parts 1 and 2 provided a way of thinking about behavioural problems and a set of general methods for dealing with these problems . |
| 9 | When Dot began to cry she was n't sure if it was because of thinking about poor Mr Brown 's two missing fingers or because she could n't remember what her father 's face looked like , or merely because of the alarming new orders about train departures cackling from the loudspeakers . |
| 10 | Classrooms became ever more informal and when new schools were built their very shape and design proclaimed acceptance of a way of thinking about young children 's learning which was often quite alien to the more traditional views of parents . |
| 11 | These days it is not unreasonable to present variable analysis as a relatively coherent approach to social research , some would say the approach , which embraces not only the technical matters to do with data collection and analysis but also , importantly , a way of thinking about theoretical and empirical problems . |
| 12 | The collapse of thinking about social policy in Britain , a result largely of the failure of the Labour party to develop new policies and not to defend adequately basic principles and institutions , created a vacuum into which right-wing ideas flooded . |
| 13 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 14 | With the explanatory survey and the refinement of variable analysis as a way of thinking about social research , the interview and the questionnaire have become most important instruments in achieving the dream of a quantitative social science : it is this which has also modified the character and the rationale of interviewing and questionnaire design . |
| 15 | Moreover — and more fundamentally — this way of thinking about Human Liberation has got things backwards . |
| 16 | One way of thinking about abstract identification is to think of the output as being a statement like ‘ This is word number 538 ’ . |
| 17 | The above ideas were generated mainly on the basis of experiments and it is not surprising that many of the key characteristics of thinking in real situations were not given sufficient weight . |
| 18 | Closer to home , Marion Dadds ' reflections in the feeling of thinking in professional self study , raised many often neglected issues about the emotional climate in which we undertake learning . |
| 19 | This has been investigated in close detail by such social anthropologists as Edmund Leach , who attempted to describe the ‘ expressive ’ and symbolic aspects of thinking in industrial and non-industrial society alike ( 1954 , 1976 ) . |
| 20 | So common is this way of thinking in social research that it is difficult to recapture its radical and innovative character . |
| 21 | The research shows that pre-school children are capable of thinking in abstract terms . |
| 22 | Wendy : ( butting in still occupied with thought of new flat mate . ) |
| 23 | A simple example , and one of interest because it introduces ideas of value in thinking about cosmological models , is a space which is both homogeneous and isotropic . |
| 24 | The report represents a step forward in thinking about public sector higher education within at least part of the University of Wales and it is to be hoped that its influence spreads widely throughout that body . |
| 25 | Moreover , one can not stop inquiring minds from thinking about basic science , whether or not they are paid for it . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly behaviourism diverted people from thinking about fundamental issues , like the design of a brain that is capable of generating actions rather than reactions . |
| 27 | The immediate aims are to develop theoretical understanding , suggest research priorities and contribute to thinking about relevant public policies . |
| 28 | Perhaps the three-dimensional world of trees demands extra computing power for controlling precision leaps , and even more for thinking about efficient paths through a maze of branches that may or may not connect farther on . |
| 29 | That leaves obvious questions about why exactly this illuminates decisions by finite human agents in worlds full of ‘ friction ’ , but we would rather leave them to Chapter 6 , where Game Theory will be found illuminating for thinking about international relations in an ideal-typical way . |
| 30 | LIGHT ON THE MINORITY INTERESTS BLACKOUT Establishing why minority interests change calls for thinking in broad financial accounting terms . |