Example sentences of "he think that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on , it was equally if not more dreadful to him to think that this successor might treat the emirs ‘ as superiors — as Royalties ’ , thereby incurring ‘ their astonished contempt that the King 's representative — the conquering dynasty — should so behave ’ . |
| 2 | If the right hon. Gentleman is genuinely concerned about recovery , what does he think that higher taxes would do to it ? |
| 3 | Because he thinks that one day you might help his son . ’ |
| 4 | He thinks that great opportunities lie ahead , but vested interests , built on the status quo , are trying to keep them out of reach . |
| 5 | Would the Prime Minister explain why he thinks that deplorable situation exists ? |
| 6 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 7 | He thinks that expanding opportunities , especially in manufacturing , meant that in some districts the earnings of women and children were able to double family income — perhaps enough to add the extra 150,000 households Eversley considered were needed to explain the leap in home demand between 1750 and 1780 . |
| 8 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 9 | As his title suggests , he thinks that national pride — battered not merely by communist but by pre-war failure — played a large part . |
| 10 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 11 | John Pople , like the rest of the quantum community , is conscious of the shortcomings of quantum mechanics and he thinks that exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for many-electron systems are unlikely to appear for many decades . |
| 12 | As in the past , he was anxious to know what my new job was like , and it was reassuring for me to learn that he thought that such work was very much needed . |
| 13 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 14 | Pennethorne produced detailed drawings and an estimate , but Hall ‘ took great objections to them ’ as he thought that many rooms and passages were badly lit . |
| 15 | At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country . |
| 16 | He thought that modern techniques could be put to use , where in some cases they 'd been tried and failed beforehand . |
| 17 | Like many people , he thought that local history was dull . |
| 18 | You will remember that he thought that contextual features might be considered in the way that general phonetic features are considered : sometimes , but not always relevant , and specifiable to variable degrees of delicacy for different purposes ( 2.2 . |
| 19 | However , he thought that this meaning had evolved from the original word for a straight track , via the clearing of the woodland through which it passed , to the more common present-day meaning . |
| 20 | But he thought that this interest was underexploited , even though not all authors were interested in , or had a talent for , publicity . |
| 21 | She looked at him and for a moment he thought that this time it was going to be easy , this time she would believe him and go to sleep . |