Example sentences of "think of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Midlands bureaux managers may feel proud at the number of workers who reported that they were very satisfied and could think of no way in which they would do things better . |
| 2 | Between them they could think of no way to get the food Mrs MacDonagh had cooked that afternoon , and the plates she had left in the stove , from the kitchen to the table at dinner time without something getting cold . |
| 3 | He would baffle and intrigue her , just as he had done Cassie on their first meeting ; and Cassie could think of no way in which she could explain him away . |
| 4 | He could think of no way of escape , short of downright rudeness . |
| 5 | He said they should go upstairs to the room above the gallery , and she could think of no way of refusing . |
| 6 | Without scrutinising the accounts and checking them against stock , Ian could think of no way of discovering whether Williams was telling the truth about the number of candles held by the Cathedral . |
| 7 | I can think of no way round this dilemma except that you come in person and explain to her that it is an entirely business-like arrangement . |
| 8 | I 'd like confirmation that he 's as crippled as he appears to be , because , much as I 'd like to , I can think of no way in which a man in his apparent condition could have pulled off this murder . ’ |
| 9 | He could think of no man , or woman , in the village that he could have gone to and talked with , and been reassured on the question of his guilt . |
| 10 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 11 | ‘ I can think of no other . ’ |
| 12 | I have visited many countries in the world and can think of no other which can compare with Burma for the permeation of its cultural and social life with religion . |
| 13 | By ‘ hardness ’ I mean a quality which is in poetry nearly always a virtue — I can think of no case where it is not . |
| 14 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 15 | I could think of no response to this remark , so she went on to explain . |
| 16 | He could think of no reason for it at all , in fact . |
| 17 | He could think of no reason to account for it . |
| 18 | He was puzzled by George 's attitude , which appeared hostile , although he could think of no reason why . |
| 19 | ‘ I can think of no reason for what has happened . |
| 20 | But , sitting in the wood-panelled living-room of the Birdman 's house on the little island of Mykines , listening to his tales of the sea and of the exploits of the Faroese fowlers of old , I could think of no reason why he should be considered any more hard or cruel than anyone who has ever eaten a chicken joint , a hamburger — or even a fish-finger ! |
| 21 | Scarlet still found the episode entirely mysterious , since she could think of no reason at all why they had been invited . |
| 22 | She could think of no reason why he should take the trouble nor of anything he seemed to want from her with which to persuade him . |
| 23 | Carlson could think of no reason why Bulbir Singh Mann should be the target of assassins ; presumably he had been in the way . |
| 24 | I can think of no reason why she did it . |
| 25 | The victim 's daughter , who 's been comforted by the Minister at her local Methodist Church , said she could think of no reason why her father should have been attacked , but she was convinced someone must know the killer . |
| 26 | ‘ You say we have no liberties , ’ Hope replied to a rather over-eloquent statement of George 's , ‘ but I can think of no time when we have had a greater chance to take what freedom we want . |
| 27 | Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative . |
| 28 | In his letter , Mr Clarke states : ‘ I can think of no justification for the continued delay in announcing the results of the ‘ taking stock ’ exercise . |
| 29 | She could think of no reply to the friendly overture , so Mother Bombie supplied her own : |
| 30 | It may not be the path , but of course it is perfectly possible , although steep and hard , to get to the summit of Ben Nevis via this corrie although I can think of no mountaineer who would imagine a gushing , torrential waterfall to be the path , take off their socks and shoes and start trying to wade up it . |