Example sentences of "did [adv] think that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elisabeth did not think that a life sentence of Bo-Bo 's knitting was the harshest a man might serve . |
| 2 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 3 | He did not think that an increase in the multiplier was a suitable method of protecting against inflation . |
| 4 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 5 | Due to some mechanical fault the driver did not think that the northbound unit would make it to Crewe and he would endeavour to coast it back to Swansea . |
| 6 | He said in terms that he did not think that the Soviets posed a threat to western Europe . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Gaitskell did not think that the issue of public ownership was ‘ sterile ’ and during the heated debates on Clause IV he stated : ‘ I conclude that we should make two things clear to the country . |
| 8 | The therapist did not think that the overdose had been associated with serious suicidal intent , nor that David was suffering from a psychiatric illness . |
| 9 | He did not think that the boy was the actual thief and he hoped that the boy would not be punished . |
| 10 | US Senator Larry Pressler , author of a 1985 amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act under which aid to Pakistan had in October 1990 been barred [ see pp. 37764 ; 38726 ] , said in Delhi on Jan. 11 that he would oppose extending the amendment to India as he did not think that the country had a nuclear weapons programme . |
| 11 | Jehan did not think that the subterfuge required in order to arrange an assassination was quite Artai 's style , but he did not say so . |
| 12 | He did not think that the house was watched that day . |
| 13 | There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great . |
| 14 | Some staff added other minor errors or disagreements but it soon emerged that some departments did not think that the report was fair and they criticized the general conclusion relating to their department . |
| 15 | However , the therapist did not think that the situation had improved and therefore offered further open access . |
| 16 | He did n't think that the US would do a Suez in the Middle East . |
| 17 | However , I did n't think that the descriptions of Colin Ward and Sarah Baxter ( ‘ Chip butties and crème de menthe consumed to the accompaniment of the Beautiful South ’ and ‘ The thinking man 's Jaci Stephen ’ ) bore even the slightest relation to the truth , or were in kulcher-babble , come to that . |
| 18 | " Men worked very hard , " said the deputy , " and there were no baths — it was accepted that women would , do it all , they did n't think that the women were working all hours . |
| 19 | She did n't think that the work was difficult . |
| 20 | Susan did n't think that the men would vote for Karen . |
| 21 | It surely meant that those detectives did n't think that the madman had done it . |
| 22 | A month ago , when Jim Bob and Fruitbat jokingly suggested that it might be vaguely amusing to tie in the , if you will , ‘ concept ’ of the album with a foreign press conference to promote it , they did n't think that the marketing johnnies at Chrysalis and EMI would take them at their word . |
| 23 | Yeah , and cos we had , we had the bathroom that was originally there , that they knocked through to build all this extension , was converted into a shower room , and she did n't think that the sink was right in that , and the disabled bathroom had at least two or three pieces that she thought bolshie in that as well , |