Example sentences of "[pron] think that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are times when I think that other people know little about it , but politicians are the last people to pontificate about the curriculum , and I hope that teachers and inspectors are concerned about it . |
| 2 | See Mary Ann and Mitch are giving up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says you 're buying things for people and they everybody 's therefore I think that tokeny things are the best . |
| 3 | I think that black kids are treated rather badly in this school , for example , there are less black kids in the ‘ A ’ band . |
| 4 | I think that nice Captain Meek went down with his ship later on in the war . |
| 5 | If this incident plays a part in intensifying the co-operation between the two Governments on security policy , I think that good will have come out of it . |
| 6 | I think that absolute figures are much more important than percentages . |
| 7 | But I think that contemporary interpretations of Dicey as a positivist who was concerned to freeze late nineteenth century political principles obscures more than it illuminates . |
| 8 | I think that previous inhabitants are sacred , like household gods . |
| 9 | I think that American trustees have proved themselves to be very powerful in the 1980s ; the British system is to leave power very significantly with the director and the curators . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that surprised everyone — including me , ’ Julius said grimly . |
| 11 | It may well be that weighting needs to be applied to er er the various criteria and I think that elected members are the appropriate starting point for er applying er er applying that weighting . |
| 12 | I think that disillusioned people on the political left , noticing the absence of environmental issues from electoral campaigning , even though they are clearly , for all of us , the conditions of survival , could spend an evening quite usefully taking notes of Murray Bookchin 's rearrangement of priorities necessary ‘ if we are to survive the ravages of a totally irrational society that threatens to undermine the fundaments of life on this planet ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I think that goddamn racket means we should all be dead , ’ he announced cheerfully , then carried on with an involved story of how he had once won undying glory by intercepting a pass against the Philadelphia Faggots . |
| 14 | I think that hon. Members on both sides of the House will agree that those two issues are closely connected , but I should like the Minister to say a little more about the specific question that I raised . |
| 15 | I think that smoked salmon in quiches is rather an extravagance . |
| 16 | If you think that Chronic Urethritis may be a problem , you can help yourself by taking the following measures : drinking a glass of water before you have intercourse , so that you fill your bladder ; making sure that you use a vaginal lubricant and relax as much as possible ; and the by remembering to empty your bladder soon after intercourse . |
| 17 | Its shares are currently trading at $33 on the New York Stock Exchange , and you do n't split your shares if you think that negative news is about to cause the price to go into a tailspin . |
| 18 | This is a paradoxical fact for those empiricists who think that new theories are derived from the facts in some way , but it is quite comprehensible when it is realized that precise experimentation can only be carried out if one has a precise theory capable of yielding predictions in the form of precise observation statements . |
| 19 | The discussion which follows in the Report for young people in general is based mainly on a rating which is established by subtracting the number of employers who think that young people are worse than older workers from those who think that they are better on each of these attributes . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that those who think that high taxation is the answer to recession are about to try to convince the electorate that suffocation is a form of first aid ? |
| 21 | It leaves an awful lot of scope for those who think that piecemeal agreements can resolve our wishes to be able to paddle in Britain as we can abroad . |
| 22 | But this is a delusion if we think that passing resolutions about the evils of society actually influences world governments and changes the direction of modernity . |
| 23 | We think that pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients should be considered a criterion for AIDS only if immunodepression is shown by a negative tuberculin skin test and/or low CD4/CD8 ratio . |
| 24 | So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common . |
| 25 | ‘ We think that increased sales as a result were reflected in the figures . ’ |
| 26 | When struck by shyness , we think that other people are very interested in us and evaluating us . |
| 27 | Whilst we recognise that planning guidance should not be too prescriptive in terms of retail floorspace limits , we think that local planning authorities should set guidance limits which reflect some estimate of the environmental capacity of the plan area . |
| 28 | ( As we said above , we think that reparative measures could be particularly suitable in pursuing reintegrative shaming , for the performance of reparation shames the offender symbolically while seeking to set matters right between the offender , the victim and the community . ) |
| 29 | People sometimes resist change to save face when , for example , they think that supporting change would amount to an admission that some of their previous decisions or beliefs were wrong . |