Example sentences of "to think [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is qualified to think the unthinkable and to pose those questions which in normal circumstances would go unasked . |
| 2 | a rigorous attempt to Think the limits of that principle of reason which has shaped the emergence of Western philosophy , science and technology at large … the activity of deconstruction is strictly inconceivable outside the tradition of enlightened rational critique whose classic formulations are still to be found in Kant ( Norris 's italics ) . |
| 3 | Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable , then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat . |
| 4 | We talked about having some fun with cars at a time when I was beginning to think the two were no longer synonymous . |
| 5 | Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire . |
| 6 | As Western governments struggle from decision to decision , making up instant policies as they react , the need is for vision and imagination : a willingness to think the previously unthinkable , to sort out in their minds what sort of Europe they would like to have created in 10 years ' time . |
| 7 | Yet when a wisdom becomes as conventional as this one , it is time to question it and even to think the opposite . |
| 8 | Then , finally , in 1662 , he apologetically asked Charles II not ‘ to think the worse of me , if snatching up all the weapons to fight against your enemies , I lighted upon one that had a double edge ’ . |
| 9 | It may have been the job of the think-tank to think the unthinkable , but such discussion needed to be on the basis of informed examination . |
| 10 | Plato was surely mistaken to think the soul inherently immortal by nature rather than in dependence on God 's will , and to suppose it capable of reincarnation . |
| 11 | She seems to think the doctors believe she is a bad mother because she has an anorexic daughter . |
| 12 | They have a right to think the way they do . |
| 13 | But the newspaper people — and the people who read them , which is pretty well everybody — they 've had no chance to think the thing through . |
| 14 | Later he came to think the death instinct was more important . ’ |
| 15 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 16 | To empathise is to set aside our own perception of things and attempt to think the way the other person thinks , or feel the way he feels … a very different quality to sympathy . |
| 17 | Dyed-in-the-wool fabric-winged 65 hp-engined Ercoupe owners would appear to think the same about the metal Alon model in comparison to their own , if the Coupe Capers newsletter is anything to go by ! |
| 18 | She is beginning to think the word ‘ holiday ’ is an exotic Greek meal . |
| 19 | ‘ I like to think the main reason we have stayed together since the World Cup is the great spirit within this Australian team . |
| 20 | I 'm beginning to think the fans will soon see me as a bit of a jinx . |
| 21 | In its 130-page publication on the subject , an aspiring paperback writer has seen fit to throw in quotes and subtitles taken from famous Beatles ' songs , which is apparently intended ‘ to disrupt the close relationship between the thinkable and speakable and to think the otherwise unspeakable ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Why , say either yes or no , ’ smiled Lamprey , ‘ unless you prefer to think the matter over . ’ |
| 23 | There is no need , however , to think the son was exactly like the father . |
| 24 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 25 | ‘ Doctors are starting to think the mind can affect the body 's health and are unwilling to dismiss spiritual healing out of hand . ’ |
| 26 | But he warned : ‘ It would be naive to think the Provisional IRA are not planning a major attack on the British mainland . ’ |
| 27 | But he warned : ‘ It would be naive to think the Provisional IRA are not planning a major attack on the British mainland . ’ |
| 28 | However , although this example reflects the failure of the Federal Trade Commission to think the sanction of positive repentance through to its logical conclusion , it also demonstrates just how powerful this sanction could be , had it been accompanied by just one further instruction — ‘ publish the repenting adverts in the original outlets ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ And to think the stuff 's valuable ! ’ |
| 30 | Tweed began to think the pauses were a Buchanan tactic — to emphasize what he said next . |