Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [adj] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it may be straightforward to think of school development planning , teacher appraisal , the identifying of remediable faults and the training or retraining of teachers as one set of loosely connected but manageable disciplines , it is less straightforward but equally urgent to expect that other connections should be more systematically organized in order to give assurances of quality . |
| 2 | Quite simply , personnel policies that we set can have major impacts on erm , the funding of our superannuation scheme , and I think that at some stage in the future , it may be appropriate to think about a seminar for both of those committee members , to look at both the the good report and the the Department of Environment scrutiny , erm So . |
| 3 | In such a situation it may be appropriate to think of restricting development of some SBUs — not to a specific amount of investment each year , but to a projected rate of development consistent with internal funds generated by the whole company over a period of years . |
| 4 | ( It may be helpful to think in terms of some specific cooperative task , like the production of a building or a machine . ) |
| 5 | It may be convenient to think of an arms race between two lineages such as cattle and grass , or gazelles and cheetahs , but we should never lose sight of the fact that both participants have other enemies against whom they are simultaneously running other arms races . |
| 6 | It might be useful to think of an organisation chart as a kind of London Underground map . |
| 7 | That 's why it might be better to think of the Universe as not having a boundary — it goes on for ever . |
| 8 | Just as we have found it convenient to think of genes as active agents , working purposefully for their own survival , perhaps it might be convenient to think of memes in the same way . |
| 9 | If we said ‘ truths ’ , it would be easy to think of their content only . |
| 10 | But it would be anachronistic to think of Western Europe around c .700 as homogeneous Western , Christian , Latin culture , shared among nations with any definite sense of forming a community aspiring to be ‘ Western Christendom ’ . |
| 11 | Until recently , however , fusion researchers thought that because so little energy is needed to polarise — and therefore to depolarise — a deuteron it would be pointless to think about polarising the fuel in a fusion reactor . |
| 12 | The problem is that these internal processes are bound to be influenced by the person 's experiences ; it would be unreasonable to think of them as being entirely autonomous . |
| 13 | Alice had already told herself that it would be stupid to think about those applications yet . |
| 14 | It would be nice to think of them working together on the training ground . |
| 15 | ( It would be unrealistic to think of removing road congestion entirely . ) |
| 16 | At present it would be unrealistic to think in terms of every parish being able to sustain a catechetical programme for all its parishioners . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Beatrix Potter and Tove Jansson are examples , and indeed it would be difficult to think of anyone illustrating the Moomin stories other than their author . |
| 20 | It would be difficult to think of God as anything other than ‘ Father ’ and ‘ Son ’ when the biblical metaphors for God are male , and Jesus was a male human being . |
| 21 | It would be difficult to think of a linguistic topic which is not covered in some form , although I will admit to a passing irritation with the way in which my browsing ( and the book is eminently browsable ) was constantly interrupted by a brief listing of some exotic language-family . |
| 22 | Certainly , if the product has anything to do with the home environment it would be sensible to think about sending the gift to the home address of the journalist concerned . |
| 23 | This was " a fact so well-known in every manufacturing town , that it would be idle to think of proving it " . |
| 24 | We shall look at these functions in a moment , but it will be useful to think in terms of certain places in the landscape being the foci for single activities rather than a whole range of functions . |