Example sentences of "who think they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
| 2 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 3 | But not only is it a way of classifying policemen and women : the term is also used to criticize those outsiders who think they know something about policing , such as lawyers , academics , researchers , and journalists ; it is also a self-appellation of praise . |
| 4 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 5 | I do n't like artists who think they can scold the rest of the world , but this show will certainly include historic material . |
| 6 | Perhaps he was like the people who think they 're Napoleon , or that they 're in love with the Queen . |
| 7 | And , of course , like so many palaeontological matters , they stir up arguments between specialists who think they have a way of solving the enigmas . |
| 8 | A special frisson seems to be guaranteed for readers who think they are readers if the object of the mystery is itself a literary ( or artistic ) artefact — the manuscript in The Name of the Rose , the novel in Francesca Duranti 's The House on Moon Lake ( 1987 ) , the unwriting writer in Del Giudice . |
| 9 | And for those who think they know nothing about building and are turned off by the sight of rotting wood , then perhaps this will help to change their attitude . |
| 10 | For those who think they may be sensitive to synthetic chemicals , the only sound method of diagnosis is to avoid chemical exposure as much as possible and see if the symptoms improve . |
| 11 | Sadly , many who think they are ‘ children people ’ are not ( to borrow Berwick Sayers ' phrase ) ‘ attractive to youngsters ’ . |
| 12 | I hope you will print my letter for the benefit of the young women who think they are in love and are willing to overlook ‘ a few things ’ because they are afraid that they ca n't live without the guy . |
| 13 | Well , there must be those who are genuinely squeezed by operating from high-cost locations ; some who are , and some who think they are , providing a higher-quality service ; some simply over-priced due to inefficiencies ; and a few possibly making hay while the sun shines but who are ignoring the storm clouds of the recession . |
| 14 | Daily facing threats ( and worse ) from people who think they can get away with anything , just because they are physically stronger than you , is a miserable way to live . |
| 15 | Those referred to at the beginning of this chapter , the dieters who think they ca n't shed weight on 1,000 calories a day , almost invariably belong to the can't-get-away-with-anything group and are not following the essential rules of calorie counting sufficiently strictly . |
| 16 | Packed with roots and culture discourse ( white people who think they 're black , dreadlocks , the limitations of rap as a revolutionary force ) , Vibe also delivers moody profiles of the impeccably hardcore ( Naughty By Nature , Super Cat ) alongside bankable acts a studio executive might have heard mentioned at a funky party ( Bobby Brown , LL Cool J ) . |
| 17 | It was like the star chefs , like the film directors who think they make films single-handed , it was a world of overblown egos in which someone like Dennis — and , goddamn it , he had known some tribulations in his day ! — could forget or , worse , overlook the common decencies of humanity . |
| 18 | This Is for those people who think they are n't properly dressed unless they 've got the right badge on — and are guilty about their middle class backgrounds and so dress to look poor . |
| 19 | Dangerous , knee-capping stuff if you leave out people who think they should be in . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time that people who think they 're in the fast track come across a roadblock and are overtaken by people in what was falsely described as the slow track . ’ |
| 21 | The people who think they 're true rappers , they dog women : ‘ You ! |
| 22 | There are too many people among them who think they know it all ’ . |
| 23 | This long low channel through the mountains is occupied by three inland lochs : Loch Lochy , Loch Oich and Loch Ness , the latter made famous by people who think they have seen a monster in its waters . |
| 24 | On the other side are the managers of enterprises who think they have a commercial future . |
| 25 | But whose word are we to take here , I wonder , in these conflicting judgements : the backward-looking nostalgia of our postwar Jeremiahs who think they see a golden age of literacy before the war ? |
| 26 | And those who think they 're more powerful than they are |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ McDunn says , looking at his notebook , ‘ we 've found people who think they remember seeing you in the Broughton Arms Hotel on the night of Sunday the twenty-fifth of October , when Sir Rufus was murdered . ’ |
| 28 | Once again I have attracted the wrath of many supporters who think they know more about football than the eleven ‘ Stiffs ’ they profess to follow . |
| 29 | In the Hattie Jacques Cocktail Bar tonight , there are probably wry smiles on the faces of those who think they have seen the last of Leslie Bence rucking into the hurly-burly of football management . |
| 30 | These pages are written mostly for those who think they may wish to become qualified as a lawyer . |