Example sentences of "thinking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that this kind of objection rests upon a false way of thinking about the information that the input system provides . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't go to work thinking about the Nobel Prize . |
| 3 | I go to work thinking about the next experiment , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she 'd sob , thinking about the heroine , and she 'd get undressed so that she could carry on crying in bed . |
| 5 | When Brazil beat Italy 4-1 in the final of the 1970 World Cup the style of their triumph was a cry of defiance against the organisation men , the managers and coaches who insisted on getting things right in defence before even thinking about the imaginative attacking play which should be the game 's apotheosis at this level . |
| 6 | John MacGregor , Minister of Food , Fisheries and Agriculture What John ( MacGregor ) has said is he 's thinking about the possibility of banning cheese ( made ) from non-pasteurised milk , but it has n't got beyond that . |
| 7 | I ca n't help thinking about the past . ’ |
| 8 | Thinking about the dilemma captured in simalakama legend , Mr Suharto has clearly decided that , if he has to make a choice between wooing the Muslims and placating the West over the Gulf , the Muslims will have his full attention . |
| 9 | Or they may be thinking about the unthinkable : independence for their tiny — but vastly more successful — China . |
| 10 | Philip knew he was thinking about the swimming , the way he objected to spending all his time training and how he tried to get out of it . |
| 11 | Philip sat down on the wet scree thinking about the War , and Arnhem where Great Uncle John had been killed . |
| 12 | And then it went on and Tug stopped thinking about the quality of the sound . |
| 13 | Until now he had postponed thinking about the visit . |
| 14 | When thinking about the bereaved , this is the sort of network of family and friends it becomes even more crucial to identify and contact . |
| 15 | Both were thinking about the kingdom of Scotland . |
| 16 | Thinking about the past , helping to build a cupboard , playing in the village band or photographing the bootmaker and the carpenter , Mr Spender seems contented and within the Tuscany he was looking for when he was , as he says , tired of the ‘ thin blue light of London ’ . |
| 17 | We have now got to concentrate on staying up , and we 've got some important matches before we can start thinking about the final . ’ |
| 18 | However , by far the most common response from all parts of the country was ‘ they could relax and concentrate better at night as their minds would not be thinking about the jobs they should be doing ’ , . |
| 19 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 20 | If abstractions such as ‘ bureaucracy ’ and ‘ classical management ’ theories provide some ways of thinking about the management ideology at work in our schools , what practical evidence do we have ? |
| 21 | When thinking about the future of the European Community , it is essential to take a long term view . |
| 22 | Imagine walking out one day and thinking about the light . |
| 23 | Something as simple as setting building standards that improve insulation could cut heating bills , but Lovins suggested that more far-reaching effects could come from thinking about the energy used in the whole process of building . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm just thinking about the future . |
| 25 | The reconditioned air attracts the flies so we wander round like lost nomads thinking about the next meal . |
| 26 | Contemporary popular music , in fact , with its fine tuning of genre mutations and blurrings and its rapid responsiveness to demographics , might be a more productive place than popular cinema from which to start thinking about the processes of television genre . |
| 27 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 28 | As a starting point for thinking about the novelistic of television , I would propose a chronotope which , while retaining the centrality of character , frees space and time to a much greater extent from the strict service of narrative logic . |
| 29 | Of course , this is only a guide — much of the merit is in doing the exercise itself and thinking about the points raised . |
| 30 | Of course this is tricky if you 're driving , but ask your passengers to distract you with an Ossianic ballad to keep you from thinking about the importance of Santa Claus Land and The Happy Haggis takeaway to our great Scottish heritage . |