Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as they think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 2 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 3 | The chart may also help parents recognize that the problem is not as bad as they thought or that finally they can demonstrate the seriousness of the problem . |
| 4 | Recording behaviours can help parents discover that things are not as bad as they think . |
| 5 | The children say that the snakes are n't as slimey as they thought they 'd be . |
| 6 | The mother , dialling the number on the phone , said , ‘ I 'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are . |