Example sentences of "[noun pl] think it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although three quarters of our teenagers thought it best to wait until 16 before losing their virginity , the younger boys say they feel under pressure to have sex and reckoned they 've got even less information to equip them for a sex life . |
| 2 | The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices , yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them , so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention . |
| 3 | This has been the practice certainly since 1787 when the American Constitution was drafted , and as the years passed no doubt imitation and the force of example have led all countries to think it necessary to have a Constitution . |
| 4 | This does not explain , however , why many countries think it necessary to give the Constitution a higher status in law than other rules of law . |
| 5 | And then it grew , and traders and service providers thought it worthwhile to settle here and go into business . |
| 6 | As Paul is to be the protector , the STG partners think it best to have trustees outside the firm , so we 'll arrange that through the group of accountants we deal with in Bermuda . ’ |
| 7 | The question is whether the jurists thought it appropriate to proceed differently in either case . |
| 8 | But in the meantime , some of their researchers think it sufficient to promote sex-tests for unborn babies together with abortion on demand . ’ |
| 9 | Some of our idle rich young fops think it funny to place such a corpse in the bed of a friend , but there 's no rumour of such an evil prank recently . |
| 10 | This surpassed Nebuchadnezzar 's original in at least one regard — whereas the Babylonian King of Kings thought it necessary to imprint his seal only every third brick used in the giant project , Saddam 's name was stamped on each brick laid in the restoration . |
| 11 | For over a century prosecutors thought it sufficient to point to explicitness in the treatment of sex , on the assumption that exposure to such material would automatically arouse the libidinous desires associated with a state of depravity . |
| 12 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 13 | In those days few ministers thought it necessary to attend their own counts , and Baldwin had his vigil in the No. 10 secretaries ' room enlivened by the presence of Churchill : ‘ The P.M. [ sat ] with narrow slips of paper on which he inscribed the three lists as they arrived . |
| 14 | Traditionally sailors thought it unlucky to learn to swim . |
| 15 | If the training and enterprise councils think it appropriate to make some of those funds available for unemployed people , they are perfectly free to do so . |