Example sentences of "[adj] to think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |
| 2 | While the party contains many who actively seek peace and reconciliation , it would be wrong to think of them in any sense as overcoming the basic conflictual components of bloc power in Ireland . |
| 3 | It is probably a mistake to regard the urethral syndrome as one single condition rather as it would be wrong to think of ‘ pneumonia ’ as being a single disease of the lungs . |
| 4 | In other words , watching the film persuaded me that despite the intricacy of the life-producing process , it is not wrong to think of helping it along in certain ways . |
| 5 | ‘ People would be wrong to think of me as just a centre forward who is good in the air . |
| 6 | Maybe it 's wrong to think of death , and therefore murder , as something quite so big . |
| 7 | It would be very wrong to think of it as an alternative ’ . |
| 8 | It is , however , wrong to think of the Prime Minister as having absolute power . |
| 9 | It is now wrong to think of such areas as having many individual sites , because , as with the uplands , what we are seeing and recording are complete landscapes . |
| 10 | However , this identification is only ‘ to some extent ’ , and it is easier to think of locality as a useful term in this study if it is extended , as Dickens et al. |
| 11 | It is so much easier to think of the so-called four skills ! |
| 12 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 13 | do not be afraid to think of yourself as a leader , |
| 14 | In discussions about ‘ choice ’ , for instance , it would thus have been unrealistic to think of the number of alternative daily papers as growing from nine in 1945 to twelve in 1990 . |
| 15 | Causal attention to the way that a breeze moves the leaves on a tree would seem to make it quite unrealistic to think of having a theory that could predict their motion … |
| 16 | It 's quite unrealistic to think of . |
| 17 | ( It would be unrealistic to think of removing road congestion entirely . ) |
| 18 | Horrible , but somehow exciting to think of . |
| 19 | Still , it is essential to the story that such thoughts be entertained , as indeed Gandalf also says to Pippin : ‘ If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards , you must be prepared to think of such things ’ ( 11 , 199 ) . |
| 20 | funny to think of it like that , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 21 | I suppose the truth was , in those days anyway , I just plain liked it " Seems funny to think of that now . |
| 22 | I am the little boy to the left of the picture of his class half hidden by the boy next to me how funny to think of Walter being an author as he was always in trouble at school and none of the teachers could make him learn does n't it make you think . |
| 23 | Yes it 's funny to think of hens having feelings but I suppose being cooped up like that it did affect them . |
| 24 | i will post more on Frank 's situation later — but i think he is going ; funny to think of when Leeds played Ipwich a couple of weeks ago the subs were Frank and Batts — some kind of Omen i guess ? |
| 25 | First of all , is it sensible to think of masculine/feminine as polar opposites ? |
| 26 | Sometimes , however , it is sensible to think of reducing length for a short player or increasing it for the giant . |
| 27 | There are a number of studies which suggest that it is sensible to think of subjective risk when driving as a continually fluctuating quantity which may be related to both estimated and objective risk . |
| 28 | We 're far too tribal to think of central power . ’ |
| 29 | If it were put to us in this way we might be less prone to think of it as imposing a vastly increased burden on the community . |
| 30 | Now it makes me sad to think of them growing up . ’ |