Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] think [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective .
2 In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective .
3 So if you intend to keep this fish you should be thinking about where you are going to put a rather large tank in the long term .
4 The correlation between such unlikely indicators and target markets was not discovered by accident , and marketers who want to get the most out of the results of the 1991 census , which will shortly become available , should be thinking about how they will do it now .
5 It 's something which really should be thought about continuously er and carried on .
6 Idea the participant observer is virtually a spy , since to be accepted completely in a particular capacity within a group the observer should be thought of as actually being in nothing but that capacity .
7 The genetic control of behaviour patterns in different species is , for all we know , so diverse that neither experiment should be thought of as particularly representative of behaviour as a whole .
8 The bat should be thought of as analogous to the police radar trapping instrument , not to the person who designed that instrument .
9 It must be thought of as just one of the tools available to business today for managing the ever increasing volumes of information .
10 Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system .
11 More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging .
12 Thus , as Romaine points out , the following utterances might be thought of as functionally equivalent , in that they have the same communicative purpose , even though the surface syntactic forms are not necessarily related :
13 It might be thought of as over-reacting but the development of local monopolies and cartels is just conceivable .
14 It might be thought of as repressive but they actually enjoy it .
15 But hold on , you could be thinking by now , do n't impugn all British manhood just because a few sexually ( or excrementally ) repressed junior accountants get a kick out of shag jokes .
16 He has pointed out , too , that if life is considered in this light , then some clays could be thought of as alive .
17 The attitude of all care staff will be important to other residents , who may be thinking about how they will be treated at the end .
18 It is tempting to point , as a common feature of enterprises such as these , to the fact that they are ‘ single-function ’ entities ( in contrast to central government and agencies of horizontal devolution which may be thought of as multi-function ) .
19 One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ .
20 The lexical items in a taxonomy may be thought of as corresponding to classes of things in the extra-linguistic world .
21 Apart from these tensional effects , most of Mesozoic times over most of Europe may be thought of as what I have called the " long quiet episode " .
22 The second parenthetical expression on the right-hand side of ( 9–12 ) may be thought of as ex ante expected lifetime income .
23 Most people Ernie 's age would be thinking of more sedate exercise ; WALKING the dogs perhaps , but this is far more exciting .
24 The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long .
25 The latter can be thought of either as something like a pointer moving across a scale to a mark labelled " here " , or ultimately as a conscious observer looking at such a pointer and saying " By Jove , the electron 's here " on this occasion .
26 Other ‘ flags ’ can be thought of as developing within one part of the French flag .
27 Curves which are monotonic and contain only one bend can be thought of as one of the four quadrants of a circle .
28 Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents .
29 These can be thought of as five somewhat different shapes , but it must be remembered that when people are talking they will be rapidly moving shapes .
30 These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 .
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