Example sentences of "we think [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , we think for a little while ahead you should go to a school where you 'll be looked after ; I mean , where you can sleep , and where he wo n't get at you . ’ |
| 2 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 3 | On the other hand , if we think of a wheel or turntable , ‘ revolution ’ implies a mere turning , continual movement without progress . |
| 4 | 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' . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | other words , if we think of a mutation as a change in a single gene , then mutations are not diluted . |
| 8 | When we think of Callas , we think of an incredible musician with an incredibly strong dramatic gift , but there have also been great voices in history and there are some orchestras which are successful with your understanding , at least , because they have this collective voice which impresses you immediately . |
| 9 | If we think of an individual asset to be purchased and financed from loan , then the authority begins with no capital . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 12 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |
| 13 | That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is when we think of the eternal and the infinite that this inner being is woken from its sleep , and our souls are stirred . |
| 18 | But usually we think of the early idea-seeking interview as being with a non-expert , an ‘ ordinary ’ person who does not have any particular consultant status . |
| 19 | If we think of the great 19th-century novels , published at a time when the novel as a form was still new , but confident , secure in its legitimacy as a writing form , we know that that kind of novel could not be written today . |
| 20 | If we think of the ways in which the term research is used , a variety of activities spring to mind . |
| 21 | To , to Angie you know , I mean a , were alright , we 've got plenty of local issues , but I mean when we think of the , the big issues , these are the big issues that need to be looked into . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Does this point lose its edge if we think of the differences as socially rather than naturally produced ? |
| 25 | The highest requires that we think of the international system as a set of norms or purposes which shape the process of history . |
| 26 | Whether we think of the ENCODING ( meaning-to-sound ) or the DECODING ( sound-to-meaning ) process , syntax is the formal code which mediates between structures of meaning and structures of sound . |
| 27 | Er we think of the mission of the church very largely in terms of personal evangelism . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In general , we think of the criminal law as the means by which individuals are prosecuted , tried and punished for the offences ( e.g. theft , assault , etc. ) which they have committed . |
| 30 | In contrast , the concept of education has normative overtones and we think of the processes of education as being of value apart from its instrumental use , that is education is seen as being concerned with the development of autonomous individuals who are able to adapt and influence their circumstances rather than be constrained by specific roles ( Stephens 1988 ) . |