Example sentences of "[adj] to think of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In discussions about ‘ choice ’ , for instance , it would thus have been unrealistic to think of the number of alternative daily papers as growing from nine in 1945 to twelve in 1990 . |
| 2 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 3 | Witness the image of the watch : it remained easy to think of the system as having a grand purpose built into it . |
| 4 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 5 | On the one hand , it is natural to think of the world outside mind as consisting solely of particulars : the only things that could be general would be ideas . |
| 6 | In Britain , Europe , and the eastern United States it is perhaps customary to think of the decades from the 1830s to the 1880s as the great era of railway-building . |
| 7 | It is customary to think of the defeat of Hitler as a ‘ Zero Hour ’ in German history , when everything started with a clean slate . |
| 8 | It is sometimes useful to think of the findings of science , that is to say the meaningful observations made and their linking together , as being contributions to a kitty which is the theory of the subject . |
| 9 | ‘ Old age ’ is not a disease in itself , and it is not helpful to think of the problems which face older people as being caused ‘ by their age ’ . |
| 10 | I wanted it to be over , to return to the innocence and freedom of life before the kidnap , for John to be safe , for us all to know some kind of certainty instead of this constant doubt and anxiety , to be able to think of the future again . |
| 11 | As with the new ‘ Being There ’ album , it 's quite daunting to think of the number of people who are listening and liking it . |
| 12 | No Northern Nigerian Resident was ever more concerned with the ineffability of the art of judgement than was Furse , who was proud to think of the process by which he reached his decision as one of the ‘ arcana imperii ’ . |
| 13 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |
| 14 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 15 | For theoretical purposes it is sometimes convenient to think of the average as an ensemble average ; i.e. one considers a large number of identical systems and takes the average of the velocity at corresponding instants over all these systems . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is difficult to think of the expression of any ideas that does not reveal a moral attitude . |
| 17 | When admiring a piece of pottery it is sometime difficult to think of the individuals involved in its manufacture — not the proprietors or owners of the firm , but the workforce ; the potters , the kilnmen who stacked , fired and controlled the kilns , the printers , the decorators and the numerous other people who performed their often strenuous tasks in conditions ranging from good to awful . |
| 18 | Schramm wrote : ‘ … it is misleading to think of the communication process as starting somewhere and ending somewhere . |
| 19 | It is misleading to think of the County Council primarily as a body of elected representatives who make decisions of policy and then order officials to execute them . |
| 20 | It is unacceptable to think of the person who is maybe dying wanting something that is not delivered . |
| 21 | It is similarly tempting to think of the colour image as hovering in the background , somehow anticipated by the mind ; but this is a metaphor , for the image either is or is not in consciousness . |
| 22 | When so much attention is paid to the vast power of multinational companies , it is perhaps wise to think of the numbers of international names that have disappeared from the scene , even during our own lifetime . |