Example sentences of "[pron] think it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness .
2 ‘ However , on this occasion I thought it not unreasonable to take a risk .
3 I thought it only civil to break the ice with this boy of hitherto laggardly intelligence who had somehow scrambled his way to a temporary plateau of scholastic proximity .
4 I thought it only fair to let you know . ’
5 ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘
6 Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds .
7 This lady on my right , Katherine Powell , does all the hard work and committee reports , and I thought it only fair to bring her here today , because she 's the person that does the set fifty-threes ,
8 As a professional carver I thought it only natural to get my hands on one of those new Arbortech Woodcarvers to add to my compendium of tools last year .
9 I said I thought it too valuable to wear constantly and had put it in my dressing-table drawer .
10 I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed .
11 There are those who think it rather offensive to erect such permanent climbing aids on a wild mountain , although we 're not exactly talking a carved mahogany banister with brass handrails .
12 This respondent was also concerned about the failure of social workers to work for rehabilitation , stating , ‘ There are lots of social workers who think it quite appropriate to take a child away from dodgy natural parents and work avidly towards replacing it with adoptive ones . ’
13 Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ?
14 He thinks it plainly better to insist that when a statute is deeply unclear it can not be the source of as-if legal rights at all , that the right rule is whichever rule is best for the future .
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