Example sentences of "[be] think that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd kind of been hoping they 'd take the cuffs off me altogether by now but I suppose they 're thinking that the body in the shaft does n't prove anything by itself , and that Andy could still be dead , or he could be alive and he — or somebody else — could have kidnapped Halziel and Lingary to provide cover for me . |
| 3 | Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall . |
| 4 | For instance , it has often been thought that the progress of a military campaign , such as the invasions of the Germanic peoples into the northern Roman empire of the third and fourth centuries , could be plotted from the locations of hoards , or that areas with large numbers of hoards must have been relatively rich compared with other areas . |
| 5 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 6 | ‘ It had always been thought that the collection was part of the Edward Backhouse collection , ’ says Alec . |
| 7 | It had indeed been thought that the climate was too severe for wheat to grow further north , but the richness of the soil there , the abundance of river and lake water , and the intensity of the short summer soon exploded this theory . |
| 8 | In the past it has been thought that the fault was greed , but this is too simple a view . |
| 9 | It might have been thought that the arrival of so many neutral countries would render any Common Security policy impossible , but the Community institutions are alert to this ‘ danger ’ , and have stated that they will be rigorous in their application of the acquis to new members . |
| 10 | It might be thought that the concept is a new one . |
| 11 | It might be thought that the subject 's apprehension of his own brain is more immediate and more holistic than any external knowledge , however complete , and that this explains the experiential difference between the two kinds of knowledge . |
| 12 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 13 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 14 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |
| 15 | The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it . |
| 16 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 17 | It may be thought that the direction on burden is implicit in that on standard . |
| 18 | It might be thought that the crime of incest which covers parties who consent in the legal sense should not extend further than serious acts of penetration . |
| 19 | It might be thought that the ideal of protected expectation is a distinctly democratic ideal , because it proposes that coercion be used only when authorized by procedures to which the people have consented . |
| 20 | It might be thought that the analogy is readily extended to cover this situation , but in fact a whole range of new phenomena arise . |
| 21 | Thus , it may be thought that the term rape conveys the full horror of the event . |
| 22 | It might be thought that the actor 's art also reflects the continual struggle between participants in a social situation to share their private worlds through public media of language and gesture , what Arthur Brittan ( 1973 ) refers to as ‘ negotiation of meaning ’ . |
| 23 | Lest it be thought that the form of cultural essentialism being challenged here appears only in lay public debate , consider this astonishing but revealing passage from Professor John Rex , a leading figure in British ‘ race relations ’ research . |
| 24 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 25 | It 's thought that the morning , when people are a bit lively , is a good time for therapy-type activities — perhaps have a half-hour reminiscence group over a coffee at 9.30 or 10.00 am . |
| 26 | It 's thought that the husband killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself after she told him she wanted a divorce Their bodies were found by their daughter . |
| 27 | It 's thought that the weather has something to do with the renewed joyriding . |
| 28 | It 's thought that the weather has something to do with the renewed joyriding . |
| 29 | It 's thought that the fire had been caused by a welders spark . |
| 30 | It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder . |