Example sentences of "to think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’
2 I start to think for some reason about the idea of being all right .
3 He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . "
4 Erm there are again there is information , there 's lots of packages on environment there 's boo , booklets on it which Catherine gave to me and I think I need to think about specific areas in the school like Milvia 's doing but not to overlap if Milvia does think about that , to try something else , some other way .
5 Since then every Q.T. has received in their notes a red paper outlining the Grant Aid meeting also a letter containing a revised timetable in which you were asked to think about specific items .
6 Because of his considerable talent as a storyteller , Chongo was able to entertain his audience and the same time to encourage it to think about moral problems , sometimes in a new and challenging way .
7 ‘ Only uneducated women who 've got nothing else to think about like show-off white weddings , ’ Nigel said .
8 Shelley , unable to think about much else , said , ‘ Miguel 's a great guy really , is n't he ? ’
9 Every country has its own system for using frequencies , and they have to think about each other — radio waves , after all do not stop at national boundaries and without international collaboration there could be interference and general chaos .
10 One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing .
11 However , one evening in November that year , shortly after the birth of my daughter , Lucy , I started to think about black holes as I was getting into bed .
12 It could n't matter less what the AMDEA happens to think about global warming ; the reality is that changes in the European Community will force all European manufacturers to meet higher standards .
13 The ideas that a circuit of Burgers vectors around a dislocation is not closed motivated Michael Berry to think about closed orbits in a variety of new contexts .
14 The best recommendation Gandalf can make is not to think about such things .
15 I ca n't even begin to think about such a question
16 Students reading philosophy should be able to think about such questions in a clearer and more disciplined manner than was possible to them before .
17 Erm and so even if we had a full employment situation , we would still need an economic bonus strategy and I know the Conservatives wo n't agree with that , they were very reluctant the last administration to think about economic developments at all but , er eventually they realised the recession was quite er , quite serious .
18 It 's obviously far too early to be starting to think about Canadian prospects but , at the same time , it has to be realised that we are now probably little more than three years away from the '95 opening ceremonies , assuming a Southern Hemisphere location .
19 In order to eat a healthy diet we need to think about two things :
20 Richard did not like to have to think about two things at once , particularly at the end of the day .
21 The West should take time off from being Gorbacharmed to think about recent events in Russia 's outer empire and the awkward question they raise : how to undo Europe 's post-1945 division without undoing its post-1945 stability .
22 Normally , you will have an opportunity to look over the machine and to sit in the cockpit beforehand to think about all the knobs and levers .
23 Brian tried to think about all those theories — so abstruse to him — which maintained that unloved children became unloving mothers , abused children turned into abusers of their own offspring .
24 I knew that he needed to be alone to think about all that he had heard .
25 Then I need to think about all the strangeness that happened to you as a child ; my firstborn son has already told me something of your life , and of the questions you have for me . ’
26 But I do n't even want to think about that , because if I do I begin to hate everything .
27 But there was no time to think about that .
28 But Isobel did n't want to think about that .
29 I did not want to think about that yet .
30 If your child is ill , try to think about that separately from your other problems , and to deal with it as rationally as possible .
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