Example sentences of "can think [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt you can think of reflex behaviours you have learned in this way . |
| 2 | Everyone , is says , can think of black sheep of their acquaintance . |
| 3 | You can think of ordinary , real time as a horizontal line , going from left to right . |
| 4 | They 'll need to patch up their wounded defence and wounded soldiers , before they can think of premier league football next year . |
| 5 | What is , or is not , consistent with human dignity is obviously a value judgment , which can neither be confirmed nor refuted ; and , of course , one can think of other activities that could be construed as being inconsistent with human dignity , which are not criminalized . |
| 6 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 7 | And we can think of other people like Mother Theresa too , in the face of so much er you know what people have said to her is , you know , do n't you think that er what you 're doing is just a drop in the ocean ? |
| 8 | ‘ I can think of other and better things … ’ |
| 9 | I am innovative and can think of new ways of using old materials , such as making toys from everyday household items |
| 10 | Erm perhaps you can think of daft things like think of someone kicking the kettle . |
| 11 | No doubt you can think of various acts which are crimes in this country but not in other countries ; and of behaviour which is against the criminal law of other societies but which is not criminal in Britain . |
| 12 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 13 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 14 | The larger the holding , the greater the surplus after family needs are met , and the more you can think of commercial enterprises as money-spinners . |
| 15 | I 've no idea whether Europe is going to work , no one has , and I can think of huge historical reasons why it wo n't . |
| 16 | I can think of huge chunks of life , important to me , in which information technology is irrelevant : sex , the arts , sport , food and drink , home decorating . |
| 17 | Well , now there 's a place not many escape from … well , there is n't anyone that has that I can think of offhand . |
| 18 | The articulation of the two together , in terms and in a context set by the values of the new youth culture , epitomizes the overall problematic proposed by this music-historical moment ; broadly speaking , we can think of romantic fantasy ‘ made young ’ , ‘ given flesh ’ , made to ‘ move ’ physically , while conversely an increased corporeal freedom is presented , in line with the experience of adolescent sexuality in Protestant bourgeois society , in a guarded , personalized , even Ironic manner . |
| 19 | You can think of solar radiation as consisting of a rain of tiny bullets moving outwards from the Sun at the speed of light . |
| 20 | You can think of horizontal transmission and vertical transmission as corresponding to the two sub-programs called DEVELOPMENT and REPRODUCTION in Chapter 3 . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you find you can think about other things while doing your job ? ’ and ‘ Do you ever find the pace of the job too fast ? ’ |
| 22 | Thirty-six of the forty women said ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working ? ’ , and most of the women then went on to offer examples of topics they thought about . |
| 23 | ( Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working' ? ) |
| 24 | ( Do you find you can think about other things … ? ) |
| 25 | ( Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working ? ) |
| 26 | Countries can think about widespread famine and the international organization needed to deal with it , but it is not easy to make detailed plans years in advance of the crisis . |