Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] is think " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 2 | Thus it is thought that the fact that some human beings are of the opposite sex to Christ is not of importance . |
| 3 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 4 | See how much more there is to think about . |
| 5 | Here it is thought proper to preserve a respectful distance on both sides . |
| 6 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 7 | Certainly one can consent to wounds in the course of surgery , at least it is thought to be so if there is a sound benefit , e.g. sex change . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe he is thinking that today he will loose his freedom . |
| 9 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 10 | The explanation for adult personality , in other words , is to be found in the individual 's first encounters with the world , at a time when he is thought to be in a highly impressionable state . |
| 11 | A second objective of the research is to explore the way that managerial policies are being developed between HQ , divisional management , profit and cost centre management and at the establishment and work-place levels at a time when it is thought that large companies are decentralising their management systems . |
| 12 | A courting couple were also spotted in the nearby Abbey Street car park , from where it is thought the remote controlled explosion was detonated . |
| 13 | Of course , this is a world where it is thought that men are too assertive , bordering on the aggressive . |
| 14 | This is one view of thinking but again it is thinking restricted by the limitations of the laboratory situation where the problem must be easily assimilated and the proposed solution is readily measurable . |
| 15 | In a climate where what is thought is less important than that it does not deviate from what it is ‘ correct ’ to think , the use of grids can illuminate the unique aspects of individual insight . |
| 16 | The dispositional analysis is meant to cover the whole of the relevant mental state , not just part of it , and that mental state must include its content , otherwise what is thought will not be the content of the psychological act of my thinking . |
| 17 | Wherever it is thought important to claim that things of a certain sort are good , being of that sort can not be what ‘ good ’ means ( what the property good is ) . |