Example sentences of "may think of " in BNC.

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1 Books and catalogues may contain criticism ; but their writers may think of themselves as art historians , philosophers , aestheticians , anthropologists , historians or biographers , and there are many other possibilities ; their books may never be identified as art criticism .
2 We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output .
3 In verse writing , as in virtually any other human activity we may think of , there are thresholds to be reached and crossed : below a certain threshold of practice and expertise , the attitude of the amateur produces only work that is ‘ amateurish ’ ( and heaven knows , we see plenty of that all around us ) ; above a certain threshold of facility , the attitude of the professional produces work that is glib , facile , heartless , and academic — and we see plenty of that , too .
4 In this sense his Habsburg and Bourbon portraits are not dissimilar to Jasper Johns ' American flag series , except of course that the flag , whatever individuals may think of it , is unquestionably American , the lineage is clear .
5 So some European banks may think of buying a cheap American network in a shake-out of America 's banking industry .
6 First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him .
7 Alternatively we may think of the more modern figure of a man whose wealth lies in his investments in stocks and shares .
8 Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal .
9 Whatever one may think of Sex , Lies and Videotape — — and it does n't have to be much — it does at least address the question of the gaze and of masculine sexuality .
10 One may think of an army brigade as being composed of battalions , battalions made up of companies and companies made up of platoons .
11 WHATEVER the British public may think of Buzby , British Telecom 's avian advertising mascot , some of our more natural bird species are clearly impressed .
12 This kind of decision fits the model of a ‘ weighing ’ of considerations ; we may think of the man as piling items pro and con on opposite sides of a balance and making his judgement after one side goes down .
13 They vary in their tolerance of adjustment : some are quite flexible and some can be adjusted quite radically and these we may think of as more grammatical .
14 Now , after various newspaper disasters , it is being recognized that allegiance to a particular paper , whatever others may think of it , is not something people change lightly .
15 If I use the expression ‘ I have toothache ’ I may think of it as ‘ being used naturally ’ or otherwise , but it would be wrong to say that I had a reason for thinking either .
16 You may think of Simply Red as being more hollow at the centre than wild and crazy guys , but this shows neat exuberance and Hucknall 's increasingly inspired songs .
17 Otis Ferguson was aware that the film depicted a ‘ phony strike ’ and that there was no real analysis of labour-management problems but he still felt that it had ‘ this air of life whatever we may think of its social content ’ .
18 Rather , to adopt the method involves accepting that there is a ‘ reality ’ , which is as it is independently of what anyone may think of it , but which suitably organized inquiry is fated to discover eventually ; around the early 1870s Peirce speaks of reality as the final cause of inquiry .
19 One may think of similarly structured expressions within one category — differing only in lexical items — as stable sub-assemblies with an independent communicative value of their own .
20 Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society .
21 Whatever one may think of such a position , it at least had the merit of being internally consistent .
22 Similarly , if your office has a suspended ceiling , you may think of running the cable up there , rather than under the carpet .
23 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 .
24 We may think of the evaluation as having four foci :
25 From the discussion of epistemology and pedagogy above , we may think of teacher perspectives as entailing one of the following ideal-type attitudes :
26 A good recent example is the TV launch campaign for First Direct ( whatever you may think of an execution that can best be described as controversial ) .
27 Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is .
28 Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language .
29 We may think of them as competing for various tenures .
30 The distinction between the two concepts , the commission of a crime and the production of a literary work , is a vital one , for although it is clearly desirable to deter crimes , it is not transparently obvious that we should seek to deter the production of literary works , whatever we may think of their intrinsic merits .
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