Example sentences of "[prep] think about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After thinking about this for a few minutes , he said , ‘ No ; it must be imagination . ’ |
| 2 | around the country , then you know , did sort of think about that , I suppose Communicado can |
| 3 | so , anyway , she must of thought about this , so she called on Monday , and she said oh I 've been thinking Michael 'll need electric for the drill |
| 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 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It helps if you can bring yourself to take a very positive line of thinking about each problem as it comes along , being as practical and objective as possible , for sometimes the limitations of home life with an old and possibly infirm parent may seem to close round you like a prison . |
| 11 | Of course we have the additional complication that the over- large government bureaucracy 's at present run by a political party which seems to have given up thinking about anything much other than staying in power and I know and hope that you will be part of thinking about much more than that , but still even with a large union , you could regulate concentrate on stimulating the grass roots and then on building upwards . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , in many authorities , especially the larger ones , the process of thinking about next year 's budget has begun months before . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Moreover — and more fundamentally — this way of thinking about Human Liberation has got things backwards . |
| 20 | One way of thinking about abstract identification is to think of the output as being a statement like ‘ This is word number 538 ’ . |
| 21 | But questions about autonomy , and related questions about self and identity have also been important to feminism , and within feminist thinking it is possible to find radically different ways of thinking about these things . |
| 22 | One abstract way of thinking about this is to think of a pragmatic theory as a " black box " ( an as yet unexplicated mechanism ) , and to ask : what should be the input to such a theory , and what should be the output ( or : what is the theory meant to predict , given what particular information ) ? |
| 23 | In thinking about this he ‘ luckily ’ ( as he says ) hit upon the idea that matter in motion is the key . |
| 24 | Each person in turn is asked to say what experience they have had that might help in thinking about this issue . |
| 25 | There is an unselfish element in thinking about this , and we can compare this idea of moral obligation with many of the factors influencing what people do and how they vote . |
| 26 | In thinking about this model in practice , there are a number of issues to remember . |
| 27 | In thinking about this I concluded that the basic requirements for teaching music — in addition to certain skills essential to any effective teaching of any subject — are a basic sense of rhythm and pitch , delight in organized sound and ensemble work , and a real interest in developing children 's own creative powers . |
| 28 | I mean as long you are going in a way which is setting up getting through to socialism as soon as possible , I 'm not sure there would be any point in thinking about those issues until you 've got a bit further . |
| 29 | During his last hours in this world , he found unspeakable comfort in thinking about some verses from Hebrews Ch.12 , ‘ But ye are come unto mount Sion , and unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to the innumerable company of angels , to the general assembly and church of the firstborn , which are written in heaven , and to God , the Judge of all , and to the spirits of just men made perfect , and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |