Example sentences of "think it possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who a decade ago would have thought it possible that the chief benefactor of bus deregulation would be BR ? |
| 2 | Whoever would have thought it possible ? |
| 3 | I 'd have scarcely thought it possible , but the lady in black found a look of even deeper contempt for me . |
| 4 | Who would have thought it possible in a boring little town like Surrey Hills ? |
| 5 | I 'd not have thought it possible . |
| 6 | Snobbish Rufus had not thought it possible for someone like that to live there , but why not , after all ? |
| 7 | Regan declares her love to be identical with Goneril 's , only that she has understated it ( we had scarce thought it possible to go beyond Goneril ) : To claim that your love for your father exceeds all the joys which can be derived from the senses — with your newly wedded husband standing by — is to claim too much . |
| 8 | He had not thought it possible that an innocent girl like Cora-Beth could think about such things , let alone voice them . |
| 9 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
| 10 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 11 | ‘ We would n't have thought it possible , ’ said Lyn , daughter of Angela , who has taken Sam to classes . |
| 12 | I should n't have thought it possible . |
| 13 | He thought it possible that he would and probable that he would not . |
| 14 | Edward VII thought it possible that his son might be the last British king , and during the reign of George V , Harold Nicolson reckoned that five emperors , eight kings and eighteen minor dynasties had come to an end . |
| 15 | We thought it possible that we might get an auto-immune reaction otherwise — similar to that which occurs when a patient rejects a heart or kidney transplant . |
| 16 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |
| 17 | When substantially into this period , the plan was mooted that TP280 also , with effort , might make the show , few in the Spitfire fraternity thought it possible . |
| 18 | As he spoke he began to take a backward step , and for an instant Gentle 's dizzied brain almost thought it possible the man would retreat into nothingness ; be proved spirit rather than substance . |
| 19 | A concern with theological questions has sometimes prompted new lines of scientific inquiry , as when Richard Bentley ( 1662–1742 ) , wishing to use the latest science to defend his Christian theism , asked Newton whether he thought it possible that the frame of the world could have been produced , from a uniform distribution of matter , by mechanical principles alone . |
| 20 | I thought it possible that directional sightings could be made from the centre of the tower through the crenellations and was intrigued to find that one of them had disappeared since my previous visit . |
| 21 | Seven months before their 1990 wedding , she still thought it possible she would marry Chris . |
| 22 | Under these circumstances , I thought it possible to work with him " . |
| 23 | When I first learned that the line was bad , I thought it possible — likely , even — that the caller was n't Kemp at all . |
| 24 | He said he thought it possible that , within five years , one French house in a hundred would be equipped with solar power , compared with one in a thousand today . |
| 25 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 26 | ‘ You do not think it possible ? ’ |
| 27 | In the event , some RACs adopted the higher target of 5 per cent while others did not think it possible to achieve even 3 per cent within existing resources . |
| 28 | I do not think it possible that datura , Indian or British , or deadly nightshade invaded our menu . ’ |
| 29 | Do you indeed think it possible ? ’ |
| 30 | Apprenticeship indentures amongst the Inland Revenue records in the Public Record Office show , however , that by the second decade of the eighteenth century the geographical distribution of the craft in the Midlands had been largely determined ; shortly afterwards Daniel Defoe observed , ‘ One would scarce think it possible so small an article of trade could employ such multitudes of people as it does , for the whole country seems to be employ 'd in it ’ . |