Example sentences of "to think [prep] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the French war in Vietnam started the US began to think about forms of intervention . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 3 | In place of that , we need to think of centres of power having power relations with localities , places and regions , which in their turn are also cross-linked and networked with multiple connections . |
| 4 | But , if you plan your planting , and especially if you are building up a garden from scratch , it pays to think in terms of shape , colour and texture , and then arrange the plants with these factors in mind . |
| 5 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 6 | As I have remarked , Culler 's Structuralist Poetics encouraged some readers to think in terms of rapprochement between the New and the Newer Criticism . |
| 7 | We know some of the things , er most of the things , in fact , that we need to do to think in terms of consideration . |
| 8 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 9 | I have found more difficulty teaching the relational model to computer students ( who want to think in terms of computer jargon and are looking for complications that do not exist ) than to management students . |
| 10 | It is preferable to think in terms of knowledge . |
| 11 | Again there is no need to think in terms of sex ; sexual versus asexual reproduction is a red herring here . |
| 12 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 13 | One began to think in terms of wasp stings . |
| 14 | Some prefer to think in terms of sound signals and the ‘ smell ’ or ‘ taste ’ of pheromones . |
| 15 | Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules . |
| 16 | They prefer to think in terms of gift , skill , interest , satisfaction . |
| 17 | So you 've got to think in terms of persuasion . |