Example sentences of "we think [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , all these types of rights contrast fundamentally with the ‘ once-and-for-all ’ rights vested in an individual that we think of as private property . |
2 | He drew from the high soprano instrument sounds totally different from what we think of as saxophone tone , remarkably pure and wide-ranging in timbre and dynamic . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | What we think of as the music we used to listen to , is n't necessarily the music that was played to us . |
5 | What we think of as us has been fashioned by the years of work . |
6 | Price is another factor which influences quantity with some foods — mainly those we think of as protein foods . |
7 | For while an objective attitude carries with it a certain distance , and a recognition that what we think of as natural responses such as gratitude or resentment are out of place , reactive attitudes confirm our beliefs about the expectations people have of one another in society . |
8 | As I have emphasised above , what we think of as ‘ scientific ’ endeavour takes place in a social context , within institutions and ideologies which are not themselves necessarily committed to ‘ scientific ’ thought or logic . |
9 | What we think of as elementary particles are really these little loops vibrating in different ways . |
10 | The lecturer was convinced of the incorrectness or injustice of this opinion ; in his view the explanation of Turner 's beginning in middle age to paint what we think of as ‘ Turners ’ was that the crystalline lens of his eyes became rather dim when he was about fifty-five , ‘ and dispersed the light more strongly , and in consequence threw a bluish mist over illuminated objects ’ . |
11 | We can understand this in the following way : What we think of as " empty " space can not be completely empty because that would mean that all the fields , such as the gravitational and electromagnetic fields , would have to be exactly zero . |
12 | What we think of in simple terms as electricity is related to the creative forces in the universe in ways that we can not imagine . |