Example sentences of "think in terms of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly we must think in terms of changes in state of complex systems , of transitions involving various types of ‘ catastrophe ’ ( in the sense of Rene/ Thom ) . |
| 2 | He may think in terms of bits of equipment , flows of material , flows of energy or flows of information . |
| 3 | Because of our own cultural heritage , we think in terms of things like the construction of permanent artefacts and the invention of useful tools like writing and mathematics — in other words we are , essentially , technologically oriented . |
| 4 | Psychologists of vision , for example , have to think in terms of levels of representation that the nervous system computes and not to do so would be to render unintelligible the processes that occur between the transducing of light-rays into electrical impulses at the retina and the cortex recording the object as ( say ) a rigid cylinder rotating at such and such a distance from the viewing point . |
| 5 | The only time that that does n't apply is if you are thinking in terms of posts in a fence around a square field or round a circular field . |