Example sentences of "[be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudinist calls statements which express attitudes rather than beliefs value statements and be thinks of ethical statements as a more or less vaguely delimited subclass of these . |
| 2 | ‘ That is bad , and must be thought about . |
| 3 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 4 | These things can be thought about , moral problems can be faced and solved , one just needs the will and the courage . |
| 5 | Death must be thought about and with that thinking must come triumph over it . |
| 6 | Yes , something certainly was over , but something else had just began to be thought about . |
| 7 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
| 8 | The day to day routine of the Home Office in supervising prisons , the probation service and the police , including the handling of prisoners ' petitions and applications for the Royal Prerogative of Mercy , gives it a fund of practical experience of how the law is working and what changes ought to be thought about . |
| 9 | It was the first of a whole series of his ruminative House of Commons orations , at once homespun and high-flown , which , whatever else may be thought about them , rarely failed to capture the ears of his listeners . |
| 10 | It 's something which really should be thought about continuously er and carried on . |
| 11 | With video the setting has to be thought about , the appearance of the characters has to be right and the plain fact of seeing as well as hearing means that it is much more difficult to establish credibility . |
| 12 | That has to be thought about . |
| 13 | All the same , there were other problems to be thought about . |
| 14 | All these points should be thought about and considered in relation to the space you have to play with ( a square room , rectangular room , cramped galley , and so on ) as well as any existing appliances , and should certainly give you a clearer idea of the sort of room that will answer your needs . |
| 15 | It is a story in which the case of Primo Levi , that of a dissident , gifted , magical , mustardly Jew , might at moments be thought to be implicated . |
| 16 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 17 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 18 | Those who do might also be thought to be insincere , but some policemen showed real regret and disappointment when they were unable to provide the service they felt they should , whether because of the nature of the call or because of unrealistic public expectations ( such as finding lost budgies , preventing sheep-worrying , or reconciling warring spouses and quarrelsome neighbours ) . |
| 19 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 20 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 21 | To illustrate , I will take what might be thought to be an example posing relatively few problems — the case of the Loch Ness monster . |
| 22 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |
| 23 | The most obvious reason why there is a greater concern with visual images than with the printed word may be thought to be the emergence of the new media — film , television and even the computer . |
| 24 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 25 | All these feelings are normal and should not be thought to be ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 26 | As for the infrequency with which it is celebrated , this may be thought to be a reaction against the daily sacrifice of the Mass and the emphasis that grace comes dear and difficult not cheap and daily . |
| 27 | Newspaper reports , where a reporter was present at the scene , might be thought to be valuable , but unfortunately it has been shown only too often how little reliance can be placed on them . |
| 28 | Furthermore , when horses , mules and donkeys are pastured together a horse foal may accidentally bond to a female mule and be thought to be her offspring . |
| 29 | Librarians recognize the need for an appropriate balance to be maintained within the materials which they make available to reflect differing extremes or shades of opinion on matters which might be thought to be contentious . |
| 30 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |