Example sentences of "thought that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the college at Lincoln the students thought that this teacher was a fine teacher and fun but too odd to be offered responsibilities ; and outside the college were a plethora of people who were not the university of Cambridge , anxious to offer every variety of job , pastoral , academic , or administrative . |
| 2 | They thought that this required the abandonment of any directive or heroic leadership and the careful balancing of rival right and left political factions in the Cabinet . |
| 3 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 4 | Tolkien himself thought that this bright ray was the Old English word far Venus , here applied to John the Baptist , herald of the Christ . |
| 5 | I thought that this was it … |
| 6 | He thought that this solved the problem , but it did not — it was a silly , thoughtless and trivial glossing over of the essential differences in the text . |
| 7 | This would have the advantage of removing both the restriction as to the victim and the limitation to women , but the Criminal Law Revision Committee thought that this would lead to an effective narrowing of the scope of infanticide . |
| 8 | Formerly , the difference between the Germans and the French was that the Germans wanted to await greater economic convergence before implementing a monetary union , while the French thought that this goal should be achieved by economic dirigisme , including monetary union . |
| 9 | He thought that this was ‘ kinder , more humane and more in keeping with informed medical opinion . ’ |
| 10 | In readiness for the event I made all the arrangements I possibly could before the baby was born to make my return to work as smooth as possible , including hiring a nanny , and I thought that this was going to be easy … |
| 11 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 12 | For a moment Henry thought that this might be a genuine act of worship , a public act of love towards the vehicle ( I am not ashamed of what I feel about this car ! |
| 13 | The German officer , who thought that this was more abuse , shouted back . |
| 14 | Digby Wyatt 's earliest extant building is the Gothic Aldingham Hall , Cumbria , of 1846 to 1850 , and although he designed the Pompeian , Byzantine , English Gothic , Italian and Renaissance Courts at the re-erected Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 , and The Art Journal commented that he had ‘ in practice attached himself more heartily to the classic ’ , he felt , like Scott , that the nineteenth century should have its particular form of architecture , but unlike Scott , he thought that this should be an adaptation of the Cinquecento style . |
| 15 | The Invasion from Mars certainly contains some graphic case notes , such as the spinster who believed humanity deserved destruction for being too hedonistic ; and the unemployed young man who thought that this finally scuppered his chance of getting to college and work . |
| 16 | But , says his co-worker Dr David Morgan , if Allison thought that this was due to the production of free-oxygen radicals , ‘ He certainly did not say so at the time . ’ |
| 17 | Ben thought that this was considerable cheek , on two counts : one , he had beaten him earlier in the year in Moscow , and two , Ben had been the faster all year . |
| 18 | However , he thought that this meaning had evolved from the original word for a straight track , via the clearing of the woodland through which it passed , to the more common present-day meaning . |
| 19 | These difficulties were forgotten as we cycled down into town and in hot dry afternoon air , shouting ‘ I thought that this was what the weather was supposed to be like ! ’ |
| 20 | Sir John , perhaps rightly , thought that this was not our brief , and that the complexities of this problem would prevent us from submitting our Report on time . |
| 21 | Tears came to my eyes as I thought that this was my and Miss Louise 's fault . |
| 22 | Thus , when Josias Nichols asked the parishioners of one parish in Kent ‘ whether it were possible for a man to live so uprightly that by well doing he might win heaven ’ , virtually all of them thought that this was so . |
| 23 | A Phillips & Drew spokesman said that his organisation uses search very rarely but thought that this could well change in the future , especially through the influence of his firm 's parent company , the Union Bank of Switzerland . |
| 24 | They erm wanted to bring it back cos they thought that this was excellent all this erm purpose erm nowadays |
| 25 | The least amount of change was thought to have occurred in relationships with patients : just one doctor thought that this had changed ‘ quite a lot . ’ |
| 26 | Bemused fans of Notts County thought that this was some oblique reference to their West Indian members . |
| 27 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
| 28 | While not wishing to ‘ suggest that Blackburn ale is too potent for Accrington heads ’ , the football correspondent thought that this kind of thing happened too frequently . |
| 29 | She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people . |
| 30 | Of the 23 disabled professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people , eight reported that their entry qualifications were better than average , and five thought that this had been a major factor in their acceptance for training . |