Example sentences of "thinking that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Patton used to send his radio messages using Mohawk speakers at either end to confuse the Germans into thinking that Mohawk was a new code . |
| 2 | SOME READERS may be forgiven for thinking that aeronautics began with the Wright Brothers . |
| 3 | Birds nesting close to artificial light are conned into thinking that night is actually day . |
| 4 | She was thinking that rejection brought out the best in Bert . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Goibniu was still studying the drawings and thinking that Reflection , greedy creature , would surely not be able to resist them and that it might n't be a bad idea to revive the ancient traditional dish of roast Gnome for the wedding feast , which would save them having to pay the Gnomes anything . |
| 7 | ‘ I was thinking that responsibility , and maybe guilt , had turned Lachlan Cattanach onto the straight road . |
| 8 | Luck has always played a key role in doing the pools , but half the fun was thinking that skill mattered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When it comes to expanded memory on an 8086 you are correct in thinking that life is a bit more difficult . |
| 11 | But for the long term , for me to let her carry on thinking that way would be stupid , I 'd be starting another one all over again . |
| 12 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said that it was " indispensable " to hold an international conference on the Middle East after the resolution of the Gulf crisis and that " a lot of countries were thinking that way , including the USA " . |
| 13 | Erm , I would be happy , I mean , I purposely , I put some lines in just because I was thinking that way at the time , but I 'd be very happy if other people would scribble it out , change it , throw it back at me , you know , I would like to see I suppose , just to see if we can erm , if that , because , because I have to say that although you know part of reading 's letter , erm , I feel it 's , it , it feels destructive and it feels very critical . |
| 14 | ‘ I was conned into thinking that way . |
| 15 | ‘ I was not thinking that way . |
| 16 | I was just thinking that way as well . |
| 17 | ‘ Thinking that healing is all about charts and medicines . |
| 18 | Mr punch had been in high spirits , too , in the summer of 1856 , thinking that crinoline was a great joke . |
| 19 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 22 | He looked at her now , thinking that time had made her more beautiful . |
| 23 | When a placement does run into problems , Catherine Macaskill ( 1985b ) has warned us of the dangers of thinking that adoption will solve the problems : |
| 24 | It might be expected that the percentage thinking that health had improved since their parents ' time would increase with age . |
| 25 | I would not want to mislead anyone into thinking that research is easy : it is hard and very time consuming work . |
| 26 | Thinking that dog must not eat dog , even if my meal be only that of a mongrel , I had almost decided to spare him . |
| 27 | Do n't be fooled into thinking that familiarity will lead to acceptance — it does not work like that . |
| 28 | It removes a standard Behaviouralist reason for thinking that science should stick to observables and for presuming that observation can be pure . |
| 29 | Not looking back , she strolled along the pavement , thinking that Jasper was sauntering past the police station . |
| 30 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |