Example sentences of "think it be a great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even the judge thought it was a great idea , Nick , because on a boat Rickie will be far away from temptation . ’
2 Robert was singularly underwhelmed by the whole thing , but I thought it was a great idea .
3 Sleep , who choreographs the show , says : ‘ I thought it was a great idea .
4 I , I , I thought it was a great pity because I mean it 's er a major thing upsetting
5 ‘ When I saw Tencel early on and heard the story about it I thought it was a great breakthrough .
6 ‘ I thought it was a great song , one of the best I 'd written , but the rest of the group had their doubts , and looking back I was completely wrong , and made a fool of myself .
7 I thought it was a great phrase . ’
8 you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really
9 Because I was a really shy teenager , and I thought it was a great place to hide ; where you could talk about things and express these feelings that you had , but you could hide a wee bit too .
10 He thought it was a great joke . ’
11 I thought it was a great speech , it was a prime ministerial speech from the next Prime Minister of our country .
12 ‘ The photographer thought it was a great prop but wanted David to hold it .
13 I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers .
14 Then Don Mini turned to Little Billy and said , ‘ Swan thinks it 's a great idea .
15 Just thinks it 's a great giggle pretty cruel really I hardly ever do it .
16 I think it 's a great idea . ’
17 ‘ We think it 's a great idea . ’ ’
18 ‘ I think it 's a great idea . ’
19 I might just say one other thing , though , that I think it 's a great mistake to see the I D S , which as I said is a national institute at Sussex , as somehow just a British institution on its own looking at these problems .
20 ‘ I think it 's a great shirt .
21 Or you could just write about how you enjoyed the story or you did n't enjoy the story , or you think it 's a great story , or what actually happened in the story .
22 I think it 's a great pity .
23 I think it 's a great start to make sure we can help ostrich farmers and others to understand the difficulties of ostrich farming and to make sure these birds are properly protected .
24 I think it 's a great programme mind you .
25 I think it is , yes , I think it 's a great thing really .
26 I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales !
27 I think it 's a great game !
28 ‘ I think it is a great pity , ’ she said .
29 He may derive some support from the statement of Templeman LJ in Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd : I think it is a great pity that any landlord should require , or that any tenant should accept , a provision making time of the essence when the consequences are so onerous .
30 And I think it is a great pity , that this council is losing some of it 's capacity to produce reports which are independent of the departments which are the most affected by them .
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