Example sentences of "[verb] think that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that many parents want to think that the first parents are irrelevant , and I am sure that this is a mistake . |
| 2 | We used to be mortified to think that a recognisable vest or discarded pair of pants , now grey , torn and shapeless , should be thought by a neighbour to be worn by one of us . |
| 3 | We came to think that the two features were of the same date , as there was no construction trench cut into the rampart front for the insertion of the wall . |
| 4 | The supporters of the status quo within the Labour Party seem to think that a united Ireland will somehow develop by some inconceivable means out of the current sectarian stalemate . |
| 5 | But back in England , the view amongst English supporters is very different , for they seem to think that the Dutch regard the English fans as the number one target . |
| 6 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 7 | The fundamental political objective in Ukraine today is to undo Khmelnytsky 's alliance with Russia , and some politicians are beginning to think that the nuclear weapons will help . |
| 8 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |
| 9 | I remember thinking that the whole process of being shot down and being killed seemed very much simpler and less horrible than I had always imagined . |
| 10 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 11 | I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces . |
| 12 | One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth . |
| 13 | I would have thought that a large company like Fender could supply this information with their products as a matter of course , together with technical specifications and notes on the safe usage of this product — after all , I seem to recall several musicians being electrocuted when playing their electric guitars . |
| 14 | But who would have thought that a humble human could do these calculations ? |
| 15 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 16 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 17 | I should have thought that the present requirement of the whole civilised world is relatively simple . |
| 18 | Unless you happen to have a racetrack in your back gardens , I would have thought that the sheer frustration of never really being able to stretch a car like this is one of the main drawbacks to owning one . |
| 19 | To hear these " my dears " being so liberally dispensed you might have thought that the two girls had become bosom friends . |
| 20 | You 'd have thought that the enormous Ballroom was on fire . |
| 21 | But for 15 minutes before the curtains went up the audience must have thought that the obnoxious Sheriff of Nottigham was sitting immediately behind me … |
| 22 | Who would have thought that the dapper VIC REEVES and the delicate DANNII MINOGUE would shop on the same sartorial street ? |
| 23 | You might have thought that the last bastion of resistance to computers would come from the classic craft environment of hand animation . |
| 24 | I should have thought that the hon. Lady would now recognise that the description that I gave was entirely apposite . |
| 25 | I should have thought that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury , as much as my hon. Friends , would strongly support that . |
| 26 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would apologise to the House for the last Labour Government 's appalling record . |
| 27 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman , who cares about these things , would welcome that . |
| 28 | You would have thought that the natural reaction of the teacher would have been that we ought to contact the father — better him than the nutty grandmother . |
| 29 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 30 | Equally , though , we would prefer to think that the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations 's experience will inspire other Davids of the tobacco control world to stone the lumbering Goliath of the tobacco industry with ever increasing legal and tactical accuracy . |