Example sentences of "think [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richie was the only person he could think of with the necessary clout . |
| 2 | These are the limestone arres , and as unwelcoming a site as you could think of for a new resort . |
| 3 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 4 | This transition can be accomplished in 29 branchings , which we may naively think of as a stately walk of 29 steps across genetic space . |
| 5 | From the physical point of view , the human child is at its most vulnerable during and just after birth , and it remains ‘ at risk ’ , in the actuarial sense , throughout early childhood , particularly during what our society thinks of as the pre-school years . |
| 6 | Muni was obviously thought of as a major selling point and the public were urged to see this latest offering of the man who ‘ appears in fewer films than any of the big stars ’ . |
| 7 | A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling . |
| 8 | A dun should be thought of as a fortified dwelling . |
| 9 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 10 | Other people may settle down happily : the noise means a safe background , a train on its way — eating the miles , with a rhythm and vibration which could be thought of as a loud , comforting lullaby . |
| 11 | Read the old sagas and there you will see it is thought of as a great living force . |
| 12 | Theudebert was certainly thought of as a great and powerful king . |
| 13 | Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ . |
| 14 | Notice that the CDR can be thought of as a weighted mean of the age-specific rates , using age class population numbers as weights , i.e. CDR = |
| 15 | which can be thought of as a temporary , unexpected rise or fall in income ( for example , an unexpected increase in income resulting from a win at the races , or a temporary fall in income resulting from a short period of unemployment ) . |
| 16 | Again , homosexuality is thought of as a narcissistic repudiation of sexual difference . |
| 17 | Assistance by way of representation ( ABWOR ) is best thought of as a simple and easily administered type of civil legal aid for particular types of litigation . |
| 18 | Party membership is often thought of as a static phenomenon . |
| 19 | The company is not thought of as a good employer . |
| 20 | A possible world is to be thought of as a complete way in which the world might have been . |
| 21 | Although popularly thought of as a female offence , women do not outnumber men among those found guilty . |
| 22 | It is not to be thought of as a mere " imitation of nature " . |
| 23 | Fascism was not thought of as a separate subject on the school curriculum , but the history of how Mussolini came to power was dealt with at length at the end of the modern history text-books . |
| 24 | The state can be conveniently thought of as a rational , unitary decision-maker ( Allison , 1971 , p. 32 ) which has one set of specified goals , one set of perceived options , and a single estimate of the consequences which follow from each alternative available to it . |
| 25 | Reflection is often thought of as a backward looking process . |
| 26 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 27 | So great were such feats , and so very great was Charles , that countless legends sprung up around him , and his rule began to be thought of as a golden age . |
| 28 | This was a very hot body , spewing its heat and gases copiously into space : it can be thought of as a planet-sized erupting volcano . |
| 29 | In a simple flat-file , the data are thought of as a two-way array of m variates ( columns ) measured on each of n units ( rows ) , thus |
| 30 | Each one can be thought of as a chemical factory which , in the course of delivering its primary product of usable energy , processes more than 700 different chemical substances , in long , interweaving assembly-lines strung out along the surface of its intricately folded internal membranes . |