Example sentences of "[adj] think [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , wrong to think of the Prime Minister as having absolute power . |
| 2 | It is so much easier to think of the so-called four skills ! |
| 3 | Indeed , autonomy has been seen as a general virtue in philosophical thought of the Western world . |
| 4 | However , it is more valuable to think of a global school development plan which brings together all central and support activities . |
| 5 | It would certainly be remarkable to think of an inland loch containing something so large . |
| 6 | Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife . |
| 7 | It is hard to think of a more signal change of economic course in the post-war history of the world 's biggest trading nation . |
| 8 | It was sometimes rather hard to think of the late Robert Maxwell as British . |
| 9 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 10 | Some of the combinations seem to go together automatically — e.g. the apprentice will be low status , somebody who needs to be taught — but often it 's useful to think beyond the obvious . |
| 11 | Killion trudged it with a kind of dogged stupidity , too tired to think after the all-day violence . |
| 12 | I think it is helpful to think of the latter as debtor ( creditor-supplier ) agreements since this emphasizes the fact that in such agreements there is some connection between the creditor and the supplier : either they are the same person eg in the credit-sale , conditional sale , of HP agreement ; or there are business arrangements between them . |
| 13 | It is important to think of the high wind straps as being completely independent of the straps further forward . |
| 14 | He was unable to think of a suitable gesture . |
| 15 | This much is established in the play , but , unable to think of a suitable ending , Perry anticipates the events to come by aborting the drama prematurely with a radio cut written into the script . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you mind if I have a look over the garden , ’ Yanto called after him , unable to think of a better excuse . |
| 17 | Dalgliesh was unable to think of a single excuse why it should n't be . |
| 18 | Rupert hesitated , unwilling to admit that anthropologists did no good , yet for the moment unable to think of a positive example that would convince her . |
| 19 | She never thought that she would look at emptiness and not immediately be able to think of a hundred ways of filling it . |
| 20 | Life is full of ups and downs , but you should enjoy it more if you are able to think about the good times and you 'll feel better able to cope when the bad times are around . |
| 21 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 22 | You 're quite reluctant to think of the bad points because it suddenly seems like the most perfect patch of land on this planet . |
| 23 | Making investments was undoubtedly easier then , with potential customers filling the streets and high risk start-ups portrayed as brilliant opportunities for investors , with little thought of the potential losses . |
| 24 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 25 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 26 | The more tidy minded among us find it more convenient to think of the Edwardian Era as starting on the 1st January 1900 , when his mother was still obviously , if obscurely , on the throne . |
| 27 | It was difficult to think of a good reason at a moment like this . |
| 28 | Parliament is the arena in which British political leaders are recruited and it is difficult to think of a successful Prime Minister who has not been able to command the House of Commons . |
| 29 | It had the added refinement of being fully automatic — still uncommon with diesels — and it was difficult to think of a better car for relaxed and economical touring . |
| 30 | I have argued above that the absence of an international standard such as is provided for cinema by Hollywood makes it difficult to think of a classical system for television . |