Example sentences of "[vb mod] think of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So let's think of that as , okay .
2 So let's think of all first of all then about the voice .
3 Whatever one may think of such a position , it at least had the merit of being internally consistent .
4 Ministers and perhaps civil servants may think of local authorities as useful agents for carrying out policies decided nationally in government departments and approved by Parliament .
5 But even then they may think of some other way of avoiding public sale ( vouchers and member-clutchers probably ) .
6 To overcome these problems users must think of all the various names that might have been applied , and must understand something of the geography and administration of the locality concerned .
7 We must think of some way to save him .
8 ‘ You 're a very brave girl ’ said Sir Benson , ‘ and I must think of some way of rewarding you for what you 've done . ’
9 Some day we will be married ; I am certain of it , but it is a long time to wait till I am of age and we must think of some other way before then .
10 I must think of some things for him to do , ’ says Elizabeth .
11 We should think of 1 — 3 as formal properties ; beliefs with these properties would stop the regress , but any such formal property needs to be grounded in a more substantial ‘ epistemic ’ property .
12 Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ?
13 You may have a handicapped child who has special needs who er has a requirement for extra resources , you should think of that .
14 In preparation for the interview , the braggart should think of all the uncomfortable , difficult questions he or she might be asked and set about preparing honest answers to them .
15 To calculate unc Feynman tells us that we should think of all the different ways in which an old-fashioned electron with classically picturable simultaneous position and momentum could travel from the source through slit 1 and onto the specified point on the second screen .
16 Letter to the Sports Editor : Top players should think of lesser lights
17 They just say , ‘ Well you should think of those things before you get into trouble .
18 I do n't know what he 'll think of this !
19 Cor blimey , I 'll think of these places these days .
20 ‘ He 'll think of another one . ’
21 I 'm going to look after you — it 's time someone did — and we 'll think of some ways and means .
22 I 'll think of some way to ask Aunt Sarah or Uncle Nick what to do , without telling them the crazy part .
23 ‘ You 'll think of some way to find him . ’
24 Can anybody spell , I 'll think of some easy ones shall I ?
25 And here you might think of other kinds of dreams that are so-called typical dreams , like for instance erm , er , has anybody had this dream where you want to go to the bathroom but ca n't find it ?
26 The teacher might think of extra resources : a box of artefacts ( some of which may be replicas ) which the pupils can handle ; a bookcase with additional reference materials including dictionaries and atlases as well as appropriate texts of higher and lower levels or a selection of visual materials for study .
27 We might think of this variable as the retail price index and label its current value P , but it could be any economic variable .
28 We might think of this full information value of output , , as the value of output which government policy is trying to achieve even though there is not full information ; or , more loosely , one might think of it or its aggregate equivalent as the natural level of output .
29 They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden .
30 At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns .
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