Example sentences of "[pron] think [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 2 | I thought that members had raised |
| 3 | But when I arrived at The St Chad 's Deanery Day for Stockport and discovered there was a group of 20 people aged from ten up to 19 , I thought that things could n't be so bad after all . |
| 4 | Oh going back to the apprenticeship you were more or less left as you stood because I I thought that journeymen were very what 's the word very er they were only too willing to let you know what was going on and when you think about it you can see why . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister also asked whether I thought that Ministers brought matters unnecessarily to the Cabinet . |
| 6 | I thought that progressives , political progressives in this country were prepared to stand by public services and believe in them sufficiently to say this will cost you and we are prepared to put the bill to you because we believe you will pay the bill . |
| 7 | EVEN IN an increasingly selfish world I thought that cricket-lovers still retained some reputation for being a bit more fair-minded and generous than most , Vince Hughes 's letter ( WCM May ) makes me wonder . |
| 8 | Erm , I think although members are n't concerned about the proceedings being tape recorded , the officers may be , in terms of you being able to produce a recording at a later date of what we actually say , which may be at variance with the minutes . |
| 9 | I feel it is wholly wrong that abortion could be seen as a means of contraception because it not only wastes the money of the N.H.S. but I think that abortions should only be considered in certain cases . |
| 10 | Jeffrey : I think that lesbians and gay men have been very creative in the sort of relationships they have tried to develop over the last fifteen years — because it 's very easy simply to copy the models which we are presented with . |
| 11 | It may be indelicate of me , but I think that women will only be truly free when someone invents a … mechanism … which women can control . |
| 12 | I think there is a case for old medicines , but I think that doctors are sometimes too conservative and the public are sometimes too conservative getting advice from their mother-in-law or from granny erm and going and buying a granny 's remedy , whereas in fact there 's something modern available which would be much more effective and perhaps much safer . |
| 13 | Initially , I think that girls would have been more afraid and bewildered when first landing on the island and would have accepted their situation less easily than the boys as girls are usually more attached to their backgrounds and less willing for change ( of this sort ) than boys . |
| 14 | Yeah but I , I think that youngsters can abuse the system as well . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , ’ he says , ‘ I suppose I think that writers do a … well … a pretty good job , really . |
| 16 | In Paragraph one oh nine , and one ten , th , I do actually draw your attention to two areas , though I think that members amongst all the issues that we have to deal with erm , to bear in mind in particular , and indeed the first one , probably the most important , in the sense of the longer term financial indications to reduce the extension of it is , limits that are being imposed upon local government generally , and of course here in Lincolnshire in particularly , in particular . |
| 17 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 18 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 19 | ‘ But I think that friendships are meant to begin and end . |
| 20 | I think that themes are a good idea in terms of promotion ; they draw attention to the breadth of art represented by the top range of dealers at Grosvenor House . |
| 21 | Above all I think that judges must beware of confusing political policy with public policy … |
| 22 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 23 | We believe that farmers should take an increased interest now in these matters because the erm general public are concerned about the rising instance of pollution and I think that farmers owe it to the remainder of the community to come to places like Muck '89 and see for themselves exactly what new machinery is available to combat pollution . |
| 24 | For all those reasons , I think that students are particularly deserving of help . |
| 25 | I think that attitudes that come from people who are concerned with academic excellence and expect it to be so ( remember , it was n't a dirty word ten years ago , it was what society expected , the school to be achieving ) , now find themselves faced with having to turn right around and in many cases , do feel disillusioned , very upset and bitter indeed and honestly , the kinder the system can be in terms of early retirement , the better . |
| 26 | Sega boss Nick Alexander , who hopes to sell at least 275,000 Game Gears this year in the UK , says : ‘ I think that hand-helds are really fashion items . |
| 27 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 28 | ‘ I think I think that tourists should be banned except for me . |
| 29 | I think that amateurs should adopt the professional approach and aim to let the ball run most of the way to the hole . |
| 30 | Erm but in these days erm I think that managements were in the main er fairly well off as far as employees ' attitudes were concerned . |