Example sentences of "[noun sg] to think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and so even if we had a full employment situation , we would still need an economic bonus strategy and I know the Conservatives wo n't agree with that , they were very reluctant the last administration to think about economic developments at all but , er eventually they realised the recession was quite er , quite serious . |
| 2 | Now they want doctors who deal wioth the physical side to think of the mental scars as well . |
| 3 | Back in the house in Regent 's Park Road , Oscar took some time to study the newspaper reports of Chant 's death before retiring to his treasure house on the third floor with both his new artifacts and a good deal to think about . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , Frome , it gives me a great deal of pleasure to think of you as head boy here next year . |
| 5 | The monotonous motion of his arm released his mind to think about the discovery in the shed . |
| 6 | Of course it is right for people in the north-east to think of themselves as north-easterners . |
| 7 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 8 | It would take someone who was very much intent on a punishment of biography to think of pointing the way to Difficulties with girls by mentioning its proximity to The Waste Land . |
| 9 | ‘ I have my future to think about . ’ |
| 10 | She did n't particularly like the tent style , but there was the future to think of . |
| 11 | It is that these programmes , and the plutonium economy they seek to bring into being , encourage the Russian nuclear industry to think of plutonium as valuable . |
| 12 | However , it is always good practice to think about these things first so that you are prepared . |
| 13 | In an attempt to think about something else , Leith thought about her job at Vasey 's , and how fortunate she was to have Jimmy Webb as her assistant . |
| 14 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 15 | One last question to think about , then . |
| 16 | Erm , I think the idea is that a woman is a man 's possession , that she should be subservient , she should do as she 's told and that she has no intelligent to think intelligence to think for herself ! |
| 17 | Lastly , is chemistry a good subject for a school child to think of going into ? |
| 18 | In 1675 the Lords of Trade had ten colonies on the North American seacoast to think about , stretching roughly from Portsmouth ( in what was still part of Massachusetts ) to Charleston , a length of coast running about as far from north to south as that of Britain . |
| 19 | Getting moving here wo n't mitigate the despair ; but it would at least show some capacity to think beyond the sourly inescapable . |
| 20 | Getting moving here wo n't mitigate the despair ; but it would at least show some capacity to think beyond the sourly inescapable . |
| 21 | There was the imminent council to think of , and the fact , of which everyone was aware , that Bishop Malduin had not so far arrived to confirm his allegiance as promised . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's the boy to think of , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Given that decision makers often deal with complex problems , there is a requirement to think beyond the obvious and usual solutions to such problems and to consider innovative solutions . |
| 24 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 25 | There are many important points for a teacher to think about when she prepares a room with toys and other apparatus . |
| 26 | It is easy with the advantages of hindsight to think of the political structure of eighteenth-century England , with all its defects , as the best in Europe . |
| 27 | The History of Art is thus largely about training the eye to think in its own way , along with the mind . |
| 28 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 29 | It takes only a small leap of imagination to think of much wider applications , from artificial wetlands full of bird-life designed to remove agricultural phosphates from Loch Leven 's influent streams , perhaps , to plant-filled lagoons created to transform fish farm effluents into natural water gardens . |
| 30 | To make the book come even more to life , the author introduces hypothetical characters , the Sportsman , the Visitor and the Engineer , and it does not take much imagination to think of their behaviour in driving or road design . |