Example sentences of "[modal v] think in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may think in terms of bits of equipment , flows of material , flows of energy or flows of information . |
| 2 | In this chapter we suppose that b/d is sufficiently large that one may think in terms of a horizontally infinite layer , although we shall mention lower aspect ratio layers briefly and return to them in Section 24.7 . |
| 3 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 4 | experts now believe you must think in terms of how much you need to produce . |
| 5 | ‘ We must think in terms of corporate reporting rather than just financial statement , ’ said the Governor . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It 's quite obvious as regards the longer-term that we must think in terms of today 's starting point , we ca n't just introduce the market and cease all state regulation . |
| 8 | If one can not , then one must think in terms of cost efficiency to compete with homogeneous products , whatever one 's current differentiated position . |
| 9 | He must think in terms of thousand upon thousand of repetitions when practising a particular kata , for only through constant repetition will he be able to master the basic fighting movements and to achieve the physical and spiritual sensitivity that lies at the heart of the martial arts . |
| 10 | Whether you are designing a kitchen from scratch or updating an old one you must think in terms of priorities , define your most pressing needs , and start from there . |
| 11 | However , when someone leaves the United Kingdom one must think in terms of both rules . |
| 12 | You should think in terms of setting yourselves goals . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I should think in their sixties . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps you should think in terms of months , ’ Dr Craig-Dunlop said gently . |
| 16 | But in agriculture , because the climate , crops and farm sizes are different , we should think in terms of national variations of the MacSharry plan — a national and regional flavour to any reforms . |
| 17 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 18 | I should think in this day and age they could |
| 19 | FORGET WHAT they might think in Paris and Milan : China 's fashion commissars have decreed what is and is not stylish . |
| 20 | I suppose you might think in a case now you might think that er er certain people are n't entitled to welfare benefits or something that |
| 21 | where you might think in the centre of France . |
| 22 | I should have thought up something better on the way over , but no one could think in that wind . |
| 23 | Perhaps , she used to think in those days , perhaps it was my fault that Mum died . |
| 24 | And er I used to think in the old days that bookbinding was a very common thing , but since I 've grown er and gone through the world , I thought he was a very clever man . |
| 25 | Yet in Roman law discretion is regularly interpreted not on the subjective criterion of an individual 's own opinion but on the objective standard of what a good man would think in the circumstances . |
| 26 | And er this of course er we th the office was being run I would think in the early twenties very much like it was done in the late nineties . |
| 27 | I suspect that most sensible designers would think in terms of something more like a skate . |
| 28 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 29 | If people know that a new rule will be applied retrospectively they will behave in accordance with whatever rules they imagine courts would think in the general interest , and this will provide a great part of the advantage of such rules without the need actually to enact or adjudicate them . |
| 30 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |