Example sentences of "we think [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So we have a clearly articulated philosophy , and we have a curricular model which reflects it — a model which is superior we think to any off-the-shelf models , and we have looked at Bruner , White , Bloom , and at HMI 's areas of experience , all of which lack the coherence and universality of the ‘ regions of application ’ model . |
| 2 | Grimly we think to ourselves ‘ It had better be good ’ . |
| 3 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 4 | So , we think for a little while ahead you should go to a school where you 'll be looked after ; I mean , where you can sleep , and where he wo n't get at you . ’ |
| 5 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 6 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 7 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if we think of a wheel or turntable , ‘ revolution ’ implies a mere turning , continual movement without progress . |
| 9 | Kermode thinks that this process , with all that it implies , is a fact of life , which has to be lived with , whatever we think of it . |
| 10 | Pound 's point , of course , in these essays reprinted from magazines and from earlier collections like Pavannes & Divisions ( 1918 ) or Instigations ( 1920 ) , is that these matters that we think of as recondite should not be so regarded . |
| 11 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , all these types of rights contrast fundamentally with the ‘ once-and-for-all ’ rights vested in an individual that we think of as private property . |
| 13 | That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ . |
| 14 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 15 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 16 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 17 | He drew from the high soprano instrument sounds totally different from what we think of as saxophone tone , remarkably pure and wide-ranging in timbre and dynamic . |
| 18 | Why is it that so often we think of pork as suitable only for roasting , for chops or sausages ? |
| 19 | However , while we think of pain simply as an idea caused in us by interaction between the fire and our bodies , we think of the snow as being , in itself , white and cold . |
| 20 | However , while we think of pain simply as an idea caused in us by interaction between the fire and our bodies , we think of the snow as being , in itself , white and cold . |
| 21 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 22 | Whichever type of man we think of , we may find it difficult to say whether by ‘ property ’ we mean the things themselves or the aggregate of rights which are exercised over them . |
| 23 | We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty . |
| 24 | We think of J.M. Barrie as a whimsical , sentimental writer , but he wrote in his private notebook : |
| 25 | When we think of religion in the eighteenth century , we are inclined to do so in terms of deists , sceptical philosophers and other pundits appropriate to the Age of Reason . |
| 26 | First the fire of God 's anger burns so fiercely among them , that parts of the camp are destroyed ( again we must not try to rationalize these events : they are meant to be seen as miraculous , and whatever we think of such miracle , we must accept the terms in which the story is written ) . |
| 27 | It does not bear thinking about and yet we think of it all day long in this pretty place , not noticing the sun and flowers . |
| 28 | Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do . |
| 29 | We think of a being who shows various emotions towards creation — love , wrath , anger , sorrow , mercy and so on — and who is associated with particular activities that we think of as actions taken by persons , such as judgement . |
| 30 | We think of a being who shows various emotions towards creation — love , wrath , anger , sorrow , mercy and so on — and who is associated with particular activities that we think of as actions taken by persons , such as judgement . |