Example sentences of "[adv] think [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethics is normally thought of as dealing with questions of action , asking how we ought to act , what it is , in various circumstances , our duty to do , and how we can know it . |
| 2 | In a conflict situation , have you ever behaved badly towards anyone else ; intentionally or unintentionally heaping upon them the blame you attribute to any of the figures you 've just thought about and identified ? |
| 3 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 4 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 5 | While it is well recognised that London has its own distinctive speech , characterised by features of accent and grammar in particular , there are surprisingly few " dialect " studies of London ( in contrast with , for example , areas more traditionally thought of as using " dialect " , such as Lancashire or Norfolk ) . |
| 6 | The new client group included many disadvantaged young people whose needs , it soon became apparent , were very little different from those traditionally thought of as having learning difficulties or behaviour problems . |
| 7 | In spite of all this , the design process itself is often thought about and executed without any formal considerations about people . |
| 8 | Utilitarianism is often thought of as challenging us to rethink the ethics of the common sense of our society . |
| 9 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 10 | There are certain academic precedents , particularly the uncontroversial establishment in a number of universities of degrees in drama , which do work previously thought of as belonging to an English degree . |
| 11 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |