Example sentences of "thinking that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what reason does he give for thinking that ? |
| 2 | But it was better him thinking that , than finding Lee in the shed . |
| 3 | The Jacob of the larger Genesis narrative , his mind full of the dangers of his coming encounter with Esau , and thinking that Esau is already on his way to attack him , must naturally assume at first that his attacker is his brother . |
| 4 | But you tend to think that 's what a girl should look like — blonde hair and blue eyes — and then you look in the mirror and you 've got short Afro hair , and that 's when you maybe start thinking that 's the only way to be . |
| 5 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |
| 6 | ‘ I was thinking that responsibility , and maybe guilt , had turned Lachlan Cattanach onto the straight road . |
| 7 | Someone from a different culture , or world , visiting our society could be excused for thinking that crime was a basic , ever-present feature of our everyday lives . |
| 8 | The artistic approach involves a more intuitive , creative way of thinking that is not always entirely logical , is found more often in the ladies ’ approach and comes with experience . |
| 9 | These reflect government thinking that certain aspects of the education service , and thus certain items of expenditure , must be held and controlled centrally . |
| 10 | This unfortunate way of thinking that theory is purely speculative leads to a division , not only between the concept of theory and fact , but also between what are called ‘ theorists ’ and what are sometimes called ‘ empiricists ’ , or even simply field workers . |
| 11 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , On Time is definitely worth reading seriously , because it may indicate a way of thinking that does not totally exclude the question of meaning , not only from the studies of phenomena of the kind discussed here , but also from all sorts of other studies , in such diverse fields as biology , psychology , and human relationships . |
| 13 | If the interviewer was merely asking the question without thinking that should present no problem . |
| 14 | Do n't be fooled into thinking that familiarity will lead to acceptance — it does not work like that . |
| 15 | But nursing could be forgiven for thinking that life — and thus the amount of change it has to cope with — is getting a bit too hectic . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 17 | YOU 'D be forgiven for thinking that LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) — translated it means ‘ Lovers on the Pont Neuf ’ — would be all hearts and flowers . |
| 18 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 19 | ‘ Do not leave this hall thinking that with the fall of the Berlin Wall the work of Amnesty has lightened ’ , he told the young delegates . |
| 20 | SOME READERS may be forgiven for thinking that aeronautics began with the Wright Brothers . |
| 21 | Their importance will undoubtedly be misjudged however if we persist in the error of thinking that perceptual judgements , or those about consciousness , involve the replication of another 's inner experience , human or non-human . |
| 22 | When a placement does run into problems , Catherine Macaskill ( 1985b ) has warned us of the dangers of thinking that adoption will solve the problems : |
| 23 | It might be expected that the percentage thinking that health had improved since their parents ' time would increase with age . |
| 24 | It removes a standard Behaviouralist reason for thinking that science should stick to observables and for presuming that observation can be pure . |
| 25 | Mr punch had been in high spirits , too , in the summer of 1856 , thinking that crinoline was a great joke . |
| 26 | She said twenty , thinking that must be far too many . |
| 27 | Birds nesting close to artificial light are conned into thinking that night is actually day . |
| 28 | Not looking back , she strolled along the pavement , thinking that Jasper was sauntering past the police station . |
| 29 | She was thinking that rejection brought out the best in Bert . |
| 30 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |