Example sentences of "think in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother sounded almost pleased , Folly thought in exasperation . |
| 2 | They spoke , wrote and thought in German , often sent their children to be educated in the old country , joined and sponsored German associations . |
| 3 | When opposition groups thought in terms of thousands of pounds to finance their case , the Board thought in millions . |
| 4 | Those preferring to have them collected , or to take or send them individually , were mostly older people , and people in lower socio-economic groups , and people who — when they were talking about being so short of money that they would have to arrange a loan — thought in terms of a relatively small amount of money . |
| 5 | Both the rationalists and the empiricists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries thought in terms of a dichotomous division between sensing and thinking . |
| 6 | I do not doubt that people in an earlier age may well have thought in terms of the kind of cosmic world picture in terms of which she herself thinks . |
| 7 | It is also interesting that , whereas Skinner and colleagues initially thought in terms of " teaching machines " , the vast majority of programmes have in fact been in book form , and there is little if any evidence to suggest that the machine has any important advantage . |
| 8 | Psychologically Britain , having escaped occupation during the war , felt separated from Europe and still thought in terms of maintaining her independent status as a great power . |
| 9 | As an integral condition of democracy at work and beyond , the progressive reduction of social hierarchy in the division of labour , whether this hierarchy is thought in terms of mental/manual labour ( Poulantzas ) , function of capital/function of labour ( Carchedi ) , ‘ conception ’ versus ‘ execution ’ ( Braverman ) , or in some other way . |
| 10 | ‘ The beetles thought in terms of only two dimensions : forwards-and-backwards and leftwards-and-rightwards . |
| 11 | Erm but if you translate that into er er into days it 's quite a substantial amount and er erm again in our plan we 'd thought in terms of a complete MOS design er where the input would be probably more on the checking side , than actual on the , actually on the supervision . |
| 12 | ‘ The difference was that at Virgin , in answering the question ‘ what do we do well ? ’ people immediately thought in terms of the customer whereas in the health service you have to tease it out . |
| 13 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 14 | Davidoff et al suggested that the Beau Ideal has permeated twentieth century life and thought in terms of an aesthetic blurring , and an emotional identification with an image of an ideal home in a rural village community . |
| 15 | But I do n't think in gender terms at all when I interview someone for a job . |
| 16 | FORGET WHAT they might think in Paris and Milan : China 's fashion commissars have decreed what is and is not stylish . |
| 17 | Do you , do you , do you think in metres . |
| 18 | We shall never be able to decide how much of the success of Roman imperialism is implicit in this determined effort by the Romans to learn to speak and think in Greek . |
| 19 | I recognised it could mean marking time but I do n't think in practice that has happened . |
| 20 | You should think in terms of setting yourselves goals . |
| 21 | The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography . |
| 22 | experts now believe you must think in terms of how much you need to produce . |
| 23 | ‘ We must think in terms of corporate reporting rather than just financial statement , ’ said the Governor . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ You have to realise , ’ he said , ‘ that we did n't think in terms of a Jewish state and an Arab state . |
| 26 | When he did not think in terms of Val . |
| 27 | When preparing his food , you should think in terms of providing a ‘ finger buffet ’ with foods you might normally eat with a knife and fork . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the fans themselves , although recognising the different types of football supporter , will not think in terms of a career structure . |
| 29 | If your husband retires on a Friday , it is unrealistic to think that your great new life together will take off with a flourish the following Monday ; but the good news is that if you can think in terms of allowing yourselves time to renegotiate the way you live together , the chances are that you will both have adjusted to the new situation within about two years . |
| 30 | South Africa has such a congested international itinerary over the next few season that there is going to be little opportunity for this country 's top players to even think in terms of county contracts . |