Example sentences of "think [prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way , this section looks at some of the things you should think about when arriving at a new location . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For five hours I had thought about and written about Machu Picchu at the highest level of my consciousness . |
| 4 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
| 5 | And I think both of them need to be erm thought about and looked at , but they 're certainly not the same thing . |
| 6 | In spite of all this , the design process itself is often thought about and executed without any formal considerations about people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They all insist on the centrality of Jesus , but incline then to explain that centrality in terms of something more general or universal , which is thought of as exemplified in him , and then as spreading out from him and moving on through history . |
| 10 | The Exodus narrative , identifying the God of Israel as the worker of wonders such as those which led Pharoah to release the Israelites from Egypt , could easily be thought of as referring to one god among many . |
| 11 | Electromagnetic energy can be thought of as moving in a wave-like pattern at the speed of light . |
| 12 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All these particle facts can be put together in the following way : A state ( the photon polarised along x " ) can be thought of as composed of a combination ( the technical term is a superposition ) of other states ( the photon polarised along y , which is transmitted , and the photon polarised along x , which is not transmitted ) . |
| 15 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Gothic side of Wordsworth is usually played down , and he is thought of as reacting against the overstimulation of the imagination which medieval fantasy so frequently provided . |
| 18 | Value for money can be thought of as consisting of three elements : economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 19 | Any body can be thought of as consisting of lots of small masses m , and the angular momentum of such a body around a point P is obtained by combining the products mrs according to certain rules which I shall not describe . |
| 20 | An occam process can be thought of as acting in steps : a step is either a single communication or the act of successful termination . |
| 21 | Since let signifies here not intervening in some event which is already under way , it is obvious that the letting must be thought of as coinciding in time with the actualization of the other event . |
| 22 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 23 | It was a paper devoid of politics and did n't represent any of the spirit they had thought of and encapsulated in the Charter . |
| 24 | Oral sex , although mentioned in literature and depicted in art spanning millennia , has been thought of and described by many people as a perversion of sexual practice . |
| 25 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 26 | Decide : 1 Which guideline did you follow most closely ? 2 Which guideline did you follow least successfully ? 3 Which guidelines do you need to think about and work at ? |
| 27 | Be determined not to think about or dwell upon them . |
| 28 | Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse . |
| 29 | think about and discuss with young people the way in which medicines and prescribed drugs are used |
| 30 | What it means to think of and work for an audience . |