Example sentences of "we think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 2 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 3 | We think it 's a false economy , but we can understand that a seaside hotelier , for example , may not want to train casual , seasonal staff . |
| 4 | ‘ We think we can give the vegetables a clean bill of health , sir . ’ |
| 5 | Hugh Stoddart has also written scripts for BEGGING THE RING , THE TRESPASSER , TO THE LIGHTHOUSE , HARD TRAVELLING and WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU . |
| 6 | It will have to be answered , so we had better talk about it in the shelter of our homes , and in the morning we can send and tell him what we think . ’ |
| 7 | It is not meant as a criticism but as a frank report of how we think your child gets along at camp as an individual and as part of a group . |
| 8 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |
| 9 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |
| 10 | In other words , the argument works equally against the view that we think in a kind of mental language , that mental sentences rather than mental pictures are the stuff of thought . |
| 11 | We can have , then , an analogy between the natural languages that we think in ( English , Swahili … ) and the programming language , on the one hand , and the machine code and our ‘ language of thought ’ , on the other hand . |
| 12 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 13 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
| 14 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
| 15 | In the case of the overhead power lines , unless we think in terms of screening power lines , which seem uneconomic , or using normal closely wound cable forms , as used underground , the most appropriate , but drastic , remedy is to adopt a new standard frequency for power generation and supply , such as 100Hz . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if we think of a wheel or turntable , ‘ revolution ’ implies a mere turning , continual movement without progress . |
| 17 | Kermode thinks that this process , with all that it implies , is a fact of life , which has to be lived with , whatever we think of it . |
| 18 | Pound 's point , of course , in these essays reprinted from magazines and from earlier collections like Pavannes & Divisions ( 1918 ) or Instigations ( 1920 ) , is that these matters that we think of as recondite should not be so regarded . |
| 19 | ‘ We think they are being shot for meat when they land in Afghanistan , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Those of us who support the European Community and the Single European Act ( which I voted for as it stands ) reject his misleading allegation that we think ‘ democracy is at risk through our continued membership of the European Community ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ We think that a girl with a mental age of seven years and nine months is quite capable of knowing when she has been raped . ’ |
| 22 | In our tradition we think it appropriate , and indeed urgent , to ask the vertiginous question about Creation : ‘ Why is there anything instead of nothing ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ As patriots , we think we have some Cambodians to support us , ’ said Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan in an interview in Paris in August . |
| 24 | ‘ The only reason we die is that we think death is inevitable . |
| 25 | We think it could lead to a stalemate . |
| 26 | Given his tiny literary output — four books and a play in 45 years — he wrote endlessly about his habits , frustrations and miseries : even his one novel We think the World of You was so transparently autobiographical as to prompt fears of a libel action . |
| 27 | ‘ We take interesting wines and price them at what we think they 're worth . |
| 28 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , all these types of rights contrast fundamentally with the ‘ once-and-for-all ’ rights vested in an individual that we think of as private property . |
| 30 | You see we think that for a woman Sharam ( shame or shyness ) itself is honour . |