Example sentences of "might think of " in BNC.

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1 I think of it more as a novelist might think of a bookshop .
2 This time the UN deserves someone of consequence — who might think of making a successful businessman his deputy in order to tackle the UN 's nightmarish bureaucracy .
3 What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins .
4 Even if they were sufficiently eminent , not all of the members of the Royal Society would have a place in the History of Science as we might think of it now .
5 We might think of the real essence of a triangle , ‘ three lines enclosing a space ’ , as instructions for making such a figure : it is how that figure is constituted .
6 Similarly , to take another case , we might think of the real essence of a circle , a figure which bears a constant relation to some one point , as an indication of how , along Hobbesian lines , to generate or construct one .
7 We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others .
8 The applications of a disciplined spatial intuition to art and design , and to the study of natural morphologies in every conceivable science is so great that perhaps we might think of geometry as a semi autonomous department of mathematics with different as well as overlapping purposes to abstract mathematics .
9 It would n't be what you might think of as being on metre , and so you really had to listen and be real careful , because John Lee was gon na play his stuff and you better fit into it because he was n't gon na fit in with you !
10 For example , I might think of a rather jolly idea for a cover story .
11 Others are more fixed and allow little room for adjustment , and these we might think of as more lexical in character .
12 But the list might give some idea of the maximum proportions of people who might think of some other form of credit as a potential alternative , when actually offered any particular type of credit .
13 He had no intention , he said , of being part of a permanent commune , he had his medical degree to get , but he might think of coming there for his holidays .
14 Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality .
15 If that fell down Hearn might think of staging such a fight in France .
16 They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden .
17 At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns .
18 I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it …
19 I suggested that he might think of removing the last three syllables from his name , which he did by deed poll .
20 And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important .
21 experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences .
22 There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension .
23 However , in society the groups that we might think of as having an influence upon the decision-making processes will be the trade unions , representatives of the business world such as the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) , the bureaucracy and political parties .
24 However little his lordship might think of Birmingham or a Birmingham man , he failed to get admission that night to the platform and was ‘ left swearing ’ .
25 To emphasise this point , we can look briefly at some of the steps that banks might think of taking in order to circumvent the constraint .
26 At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her .
27 We might think of this variable as the retail price index and label its current value P , but it could be any economic variable .
28 Recall that we assumed that the nominal quantity of money in the economy , m t , was determined in the following simple way : where g is a known constant ; and v t is a random , serially uncorrelated variable with mean zero , which represents the unpredictable component of the quantity of money , and which we might think of as arising because of , say , faults in the government 's monetary control techniques .
29 We might think of this full information value of output , , as the value of output which government policy is trying to achieve even though there is not full information ; or , more loosely , one might think of it or its aggregate equivalent as the natural level of output .
30 We might think of this full information value of output , , as the value of output which government policy is trying to achieve even though there is not full information ; or , more loosely , one might think of it or its aggregate equivalent as the natural level of output .
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