Example sentences of "[pers pn] think [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an Oval Office photo session at the start of the six-hour White House visit , Mr Major said of the airdrop plan : ‘ I think as a humanitarian mission , it is very welcome and it will have our support . ’ |
| 2 | The decision in Chamberlain was also followed and referred to in Vestey v IRC 31 TC 1 but Lord Reid did give a warning : The ingenuity of those who devise these schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property can never be comprised in a settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 3 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 4 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 5 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 6 | About fifteen quid I think for a small one this chap said , it 's very cheap |
| 7 | I think to a certain extent the West Indian kids tend to get labelled and these labels they feel they 've got to live up to . |
| 8 | I mean one of the problems with probation I think to a certain extent is that er obviously if you get these people who keep going into prison and coming out again , er it 's really pretty difficult to erm er influence their behaviour positively probably . |
| 9 | I think to a certain extent that might be literally true , but the northern part of the county , you 've got linkages into the A sixty six have n't you , Scotch Corner and to the west and you 've also got linkages here into the Wharfe Valley and up through to Skipton again and further south you can link into the M sixty two ca n't you , as trans-pennine . |
| 10 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 11 | I think to a large degree fashion has something to do with it — the innovatory concept of Sussex was very exciting in the Sixties , it 's a bit old had not . |
| 12 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 13 | I think from a financial point of view , what is er , of interest , and the economical use of these places as opposed to er , residential care , particularly specialist residential care , where p where we 're able to provide er , at a cost of eleven , about eleven thousand two hundred and fifty pounds per child , as opposed to what can be considerable expenditure on er , on specialist out-county places . |
| 14 | I think in a strange sort of way I feel sorry for McDunn . |
| 15 | " Basically this garden is blue and white and I think in a small garden one has to pay great attention to the colours , otherwise it can look an awful hotchpotch , " says Tricia . |
| 16 | I think in a similar fashion in , in a similar fashion , we 're seeing other areas of the country that are affected by , by the ravages of the internal market . |
| 17 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |
| 18 | I think in a democratic society we restrict the security services and that gives the advantage to the terrorists , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I think in a two-minute interview what you can expect is no more than two or three questions , possibly four . |
| 20 | Well , I suppose , if somebody 's going around with an opinion pole , and they ask you about a certain , what you think about a certain thing , that , that , presume what their asking about , may affect everybody in different way |
| 21 | If you think of a famous building that you associate with London okay we are doing life in the city , we all live in London okay , think in your mind of a famous building for example Saint Paul 's , what I want you to do , and we 'll go round the class , is that I want you to describe yourself |
| 22 | We English have an important advantage over foreigners in this respect and it is for this reason that when you think of a great butler , he is bound , almost by definition , to be an Englishman . |
| 23 | You think of a warm , inky cave and you got its mouth all right . |
| 24 | And if you think for a single moment that there 's going to be a repeat of tonight then think again . |
| 25 | ‘ You think in a little place like Watton nothing like this will ever happen , ’ he said . |
| 26 | So , we think for a little while ahead you should go to a school where you 'll be looked after ; I mean , where you can sleep , and where he wo n't get at you . ’ |
| 27 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |
| 28 | If they think about it at all , they think of a mythical golden age when children at school were naturally obedient , and , if not , were forced to learn and to remember what they were told . |
| 29 | The scientists and philosophers — and I think it 's significant that scientific study used to be called natural philosophy — they think in a big way , about yesterday and tomorrow , about the whole great sweep of mankind in the world . |