Example sentences of "think in [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When opposition groups thought in terms of thousands of pounds to finance their case , the Board thought in millions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Both the rationalists and the empiricists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries thought in terms of a dichotomous division between sensing and thinking . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The beetles thought in terms of only two dimensions : forwards-and-backwards and leftwards-and-rightwards . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You should think in terms of setting yourselves goals . |
| 14 | The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography . |
| 15 | experts now believe you must think in terms of how much you need to produce . |
| 16 | ‘ We must think in terms of corporate reporting rather than just financial statement , ’ said the Governor . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ You have to realise , ’ he said , ‘ that we did n't think in terms of a Jewish state and an Arab state . |
| 19 | When he did not think in terms of Val . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the fans themselves , although recognising the different types of football supporter , will not think in terms of a career structure . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Do you think in terms of a pure chromatic scale ? |
| 25 | Do you think in terms of scales and modes relative to the chordal structure you 're playing over , or do you think more in terms of the overall picture ? |
| 26 | The negative consequence , however , is that Christians there have developed a ghetto mentality that can no longer think in terms of mission , but only survival . |
| 27 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 28 | He may think in terms of bits of equipment , flows of material , flows of energy or flows of information . |
| 29 | Given their straitened horizons , and their own abnormality , how could they really think in terms of something as being significantly abnormal ? |
| 30 | It is a cardinal error , and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone , to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions . |