Example sentences of "we think [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | other words , if we think of a mutation as a change in a single gene , then mutations are not diluted . |
| 2 | Thus , when we think of a person , the impression we give to him and the one we wanted to give to him and what we really think of him , and what we say to other people about him are all exactly the same . |
| 3 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if we think of a wheel or turntable , ‘ revolution ’ implies a mere turning , continual movement without progress . |
| 5 | We think of a being who shows various emotions towards creation — love , wrath , anger , sorrow , mercy and so on — and who is associated with particular activities that we think of as actions taken by persons , such as judgement . |
| 6 | But in most conversational contexts , if we think of an activity as connected with crime , we are likely to be thinking of an activity which is itself criminal ; and on the other hand , in all cases , activity which is itself criminal is by definition connected with crime . |
| 7 | Er we think of the mission of the church very largely in terms of personal evangelism . |
| 8 | We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty . |
| 9 | When we see swallows that sleep high in the sky , circling higher and higher until they are absorbed by the sky , we think of the air as the frail hammocks finer than gossamer in which they are rocked to sleep . |
| 10 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 11 | Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is . |
| 12 | However , while we think of pain simply as an idea caused in us by interaction between the fire and our bodies , we think of the snow as being , in itself , white and cold . |
| 13 | In a sense , if we think of the context of say the late eighteenth early nineteenth century perhaps more , perhaps more specifically we think of the er , of the er erm early nineteenth century . |
| 14 | The child has learnt that we think with the head ; sometimes it even alludes to the brain' . |
| 15 | I Obviously I ca n't preempt a discussion , but if we think on the evidence we see in in October that er that that is the course to take , we would do so . |
| 16 | In short , how we think about the way in which psychological processes , like visual perception , are carried out determines how we study the visual parts of the brain . |
| 17 | Second , it demands that we think about the direction of time . |
| 18 | We realise that this is a subject which warrants much consideration , as we think about the life and reverence of our churches and look to the future for . |
| 19 | It was this thought that started Einstein on the road to his theory of gravity — still the most beautiful way of organizing how we think about the Universe . |
| 20 | In other words , the argument works equally against the view that we think in a kind of mental language , that mental sentences rather than mental pictures are the stuff of thought . |
| 21 | Over and above that we think in a sense that it 's a series of disabilities , of intellectual functioning , and although it 's not by any means proven , we think that these are probably constitutional in origin . |
| 22 | Other subtle philosophical discussions concerned the contrast between the objective reality of the instant and the ideal nature of duration , because the latter is a mental construct , whereas the former is experienced ( the opposite of what we think in the West today ) . |