Example sentences of "think [prep] the [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The painting of the giant could become a picture which is going to be used to show a sceptical researcher ( the teacher in role ? ) how big the giant really is — necessarily demanding that the child thinks about the concept of scale . |
| 2 | She thinks about the structure of Disraeli 's Sybil : or , the Two Nations ( 1845 ) , until the sound of the Guardian dropping on to the doormat sends her scurrying to the front door . ) |
| 3 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 4 | Let's think about the number of regions we have , the T & G have got seven , we 've got ten . |
| 5 | What do you think about the meaning of life then ? |
| 6 | What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child . |
| 7 | Now I 've got four letter Ps to do with the voice er and what I want to do is is think about the comparison of aspects of the voice when we have a normal one to one conversation and compare that with the same aspects when we 're making a presentation standing in front of a group . |
| 8 | ‘ The doctors said what does it matter as long as he is alive but they do n't think about the quality of life . |
| 9 | This is a general look at handicaps with particular reference to the wheelchair bound and is aimed at helping pupils think about the needs of others in society . |
| 10 | ‘ The book made us think about the nature of health . |
| 11 | Whatever Mustakimzade does think about the dating of Abdulkerim 's Muftilik , then , it is clear that he does not believe that he followed Molla Gurani . |
| 12 | Economists may think of the interests of nations in terms of wealth , and lawyers in terms of adherence to legal rules working to one 's advantage . |
| 13 | ‘ What do you think of the intelligence of people ? ’ asked Mavis Pellington . |
| 14 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 15 | And what do you think of the idea of ways that the , that the way the house types were graded , the fact that some of them were in fact meant to be executive or managerial classes and others were meant to be for people with less income , do you think that this is again recreating this sort of class system within the planning of the town ? |
| 16 | How , therefore , should we think of the uses of language , in a way that could provide functional accounts of linguistic structure ? |
| 17 | This does at least make him think of the kinds of life to be found in the sea . |
| 18 | That let us think of the understanding of action in individualist terms , typified by the rational choices of the individual microeconomic agent . |
| 19 | One thinks of the stories of child muggers bearing sharp knives , driven below by a greater police presence upstairs , of the Underground ‘ acid fiend ’ who squirts hydrochloric acid on people 's legs before making his escape , of steamers , hip-hop-styled persons perpetrating economy-sized thefts . |
| 20 | Stannard 's treatment is not entirely new , rather he is usefully conveying elements of some recent trends in Christian theology which take science very seriously while preserving the realities of faith ( one thinks of the writings of Tom Torrance , Stanley Jaki , Arthur Peacocke , the meetings of the UK science and Faith Forum , and of the World Council of Churches 's programme on faith and science ) . |
| 21 | Masklin had never really thought about the insides of aircraft . |
| 22 | Freud had thought about the myth of Oedipus , and the relationships between parents and children , in 1897 in a letter to Fleiss , and there are explicit formulations of the idea in the Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis , given in 1909 in the United States . |
| 23 | Only when you have made your plans , decided on your work sequence , bought your appliances and thought about the style of room you would like to create , can you focus on the treatment of the rest : the framework of walls , floor , window and ceiling as well as the sort of tiles , splashback and worktop you would like . |
| 24 | But if people move on , it 's understandable , in the event that everyone moves on , and I 'm left dangling in the recording studio — then it would seem to confirm everything I 've ever thought about the cruelties of life . ’ |
| 25 | This is not to say that only poetry with ‘ positive attitudes to life ’ is acceptable , since anyone who has thought about the representation of evil in literature , whether in satire or tragedy or in the novel , will know that an apparently negative attitude can be in fact profoundly positive . |
| 26 | Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side . |
| 27 | So far we have thought of the expression of grief as a process that takes ti me and needs the opportunity and space to be lived through . |
| 28 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 29 | She had no need for speech for she gave birth to — she uttered — The Word … ’ and , standing before the icon , so perfect in its gilded stillness , I had thought of the bodies of men , land-locked and mute , and I had felt sorry for them . |
| 30 | The complete lack of correlation with the erythrocyte sedimentation rate reinforces the finding of other studies showing that this laboratory test may not be as useful as once thought in the assessment of Crohn 's disease activity , whereas the value of raised platelet count was confirmed , particularly in colonic disease . |