Example sentences of "can think [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 2 | There is to be a fancy-dress parade , with a bicycle as a prize for the best entry , so see if you can think of a good idea for a character . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I can think of a thousand better things to do . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , I I honestly though , oh yes I can , I think I can think of a black sheep . |
| 5 | And no one can think of a similar incident on this scale . |
| 6 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 7 | ‘ I can think of a few names . |
| 8 | ‘ I can think of a few consultants , not to mention some very tired registrars , ’ she added ruefully , ‘ who 'd give their right arm to work in conditions like these . ’ |
| 9 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 10 | ‘ I can think of a dozen good reasons , ’ smiled Pascoe . |
| 11 | ‘ I can think of no good reason why I should shy from going openly and without having recourse to others . ’ |
| 12 | Apart from the lightning that brings Frankenstein 's monster to life , I can think of no other appearance of physics in films that incidentally have science in them . |
| 13 | I can think of no other reason . |
| 14 | I can think of no other person in the Anti-Apartheid Movement who knows more and is more up to date on the current situation in South Africa . |
| 15 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 16 | With the possible exception of Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Collins , I can think of no two women less likely to benefit from each other 's company than these two , and I foresee fireworks . |
| 17 | This is a subject to which more thought should be given , and I can think of no better organisation to pursue it than your own . |
| 18 | I can think of no better manual for life in the kingdom than this ‘ Queen of the epistles ’ . |
| 19 | Even with the benefit of centuries of debate Hollis can think of no better way to support reason than a grand axiological claim : |
| 20 | I can think of no better expression to characterise these similarities than ‘ family resemblances ’ ; for the various resemblances between members of a family … overlap and criss-cross in the same way . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I can think of no better place to be married . |
| 22 | I can think of no better , happier or more beautiful place for watching his county side being defeated than the Worcestershire county cricket ground . |
| 23 | But a plea for formalised plea bargaining by Bar Council chairman , was strongly repudiated by his successor , , a strong civil rights activist , who told the Criminal Law Solicitors Association conference , ‘ I can think of no greater avenue for injustice than plea bargaining ’ , which he described as mixing ‘ quantum with liability ’ . |
| 24 | And I can think of no finer tribute than that . |
| 25 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 26 | We can think of an individual organism as a ‘ group ’ of cells . |
| 27 | 4.16 If you are handling cash , however small the amount , and you are not sure if there is an need for you to do so or you can think of an alternative method which will dispense with the need for you to carry cash in the course of your work , you should let your line supervisor know . |
| 28 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 29 | Because the insect is on both sheets of glass , you can think of the two sheets as passing , at an angle , through each other . |
| 30 | Among that most representative breed of ministers , Moderators , it is even closer to the mark , and without consulting the records I can think of the Very Reverends MacLeod , Fraser , Craig ( Archie ) , Craig ( Robert ) and Reid , as examples . |