Example sentences of "we [verb] think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend to think of joint finance , in the English context , as involving the district health authority , but there is a range of agencies — from the highest level in the NHS down to the family practitioner committees — who must have a part to play in planning community services and of course in supporting community services . |
| 2 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 3 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 4 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 5 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 6 | And that 's my problem , we keeping thinking about another one and doing things . |
| 7 | The relativism of values seems so sensible and convincing until we reflect on what this implies , namely that what we feel passionately about with regard to truth or justice or purpose of life has no justification apart from the fact that we happen to think like this . |
| 8 | But we try to think of happy memories together too . |
| 9 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 10 | If we do think in this unilinear way , we will be inclined to dismiss or devalue evidence that is important for our understanding of language history , just as some of our predecessors have done . |
| 11 | We all need a goal and once we are well on the way to achieving it , then it is essential that we start thinking about another one . |
| 12 | Prince Charles admitted as much : ‘ We 've thought of one or two . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a possibility , and we 've thought of that . |
| 14 | ‘ We had thought of that . ’ |
| 15 | But Weber gives wertrational action its own standing and importance and , when we come to think about expressive rationality later , we shall return to the topic . |
| 16 | We have thought of videotaped interviews as a record of a therapeutic interaction . |
| 17 | ‘ We have thought of that too , papa , ’ Charlotte said . |
| 18 | We have to think of possible test factors which are related to both income and preparedness to break the law . |
| 19 | A whole world of time before we have to think of that . ’ |
| 20 | Again , the implication is clear — we have to think of buried sites in their landscapes , which will only be detected via redevelopment projects and cropmarks on air photographs . |
| 21 | We have to think of little Enoch . ’ |
| 22 | In order to eat a healthy diet we need to think about two things : |