Example sentences of "i think in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I think in the junior school , it was in the juniors you did n't get punishment there as children in the first school , you stood in a corner , that was your punishment . |
| 2 | I think in the current atmosphere of local government reform , I mean maybe there is an answer there , I mean you work for local councils but much of your role is concerned with statutory instruments if you like , statutory issues , issues which have got absolutely nothing to do with the people who are supposedly making the decisions which you 're supposed to implement , they 're made nationally , and you have to implement them . |
| 3 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 4 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
| 5 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 6 | But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end . |
| 7 | Erm I think in the first instance , an assessment needs to be done of all the la of the landscape quality and I would suggest that it ought to be directed away from from areas of high landscape quality , towards areas of a lower landscape quality . |
| 8 | Er , he was in the ambulance corp , I think in the First World War , but he was a redback . |
| 9 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 10 | So what we , we need to go to him I think in the first instance and say we want to do X Y and Z , and if he , if he says fine you know . |
| 11 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 12 | I think in the old days people were more tolerant towards each other . |
| 13 | Now one hundred and nineteen for four , Tufnell bowls this one , forward goes and the ball trickles up towards and another maiden over so now they 've had sixteen overs , ten maidens for seventeen and er I think in the old days you would have been quite proud of those figures erm Victor . |
| 14 | Although manager Billy Bonds refuses to give up , he admitted : ‘ I think in the last month we have always felt it was going to be very difficult for us . |
| 15 | There 's a pen I think in the white box behind you . |
| 16 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 17 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |