Example sentences of "thinking on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , clearly their is a a long history of cooperation between the authorities on Greater York , and er I think it is important to explain the development of thinking on that , and the reasons why the City Council has , I would say progressively , er reduced its er the warmth of its enthusiasm to such a state that it 's actually become extremely cold now . |
| 2 | Some school staff requested information about Church thinking on Catholic schools . |
| 3 | THINKING on economic reform in Eastern Europe has , up to now , drawn heavily on experience from the third world . |
| 4 | Different causes and individuals could have their say on different pages , under an overall consensus umbrella which embraced correct Right-On thinking on all aspects of the paper 's coverage — from news to TV to sport . |
| 5 | This can lead to fervent acceptance or rejection uninformed by understanding , the imposition of one mode of thinking on another . |
| 6 | Letter : Smart thinking on public transport |
| 7 | Letter : Smart thinking on public transport |
| 8 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 9 | However , for 14 years this government 's thinking on fiscal policy has concentrated on short-term remedies . |
| 10 | Makarenko was not alone in the disorderly climate of 1922 in thinking on these lines . |
| 11 | Naturally , such a tale of musical turpitude sat well at the centre of a rather glibly ( and often inaccurately ) assembled documentary devoted to the somewhat tendentious premiss of its headline-catching title ; but it illustrates , too , how muddled and superficial — not to say unpleasingly moralistic — thinking on these matters can be . |
| 12 | According to Robyn ( or , more precisely , according to the writers who have influenced her thinking on these matters ) , there is no such thing as the ‘ self ’ on which capitalism and the classic novel are founded — that is to say , a finite , unique soul or essence that constitutes a person 's identity ; there is only a subject position in an infinite web of discourses — the discourses of power , sex , family , science , religion , poetry , etc . |
| 13 | Thinking on these Things |
| 14 | If he wanted to depress himself he could very easily , thinking on this subject , but he was not used to looking too far ahead in this life . |
| 15 | Certainly the MoD thinking on this issue has had little effect in delaying delivery of the four frigates . |
| 16 | However , thinking on this score is also becoming less doctrinaire . |
| 17 | The Government 's thinking on this issue is confused . |
| 18 | It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter . |