Example sentences of "think [that] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some will think that a good community never lays down coercive rules except to enforce moral duties , and therefore that Mr. O'Brian should be made to compensate Mrs. McLoughlin if , but only if , he has a moral duty to do so . |
| 2 | Now I ask you , do you think that a privatized network that has to pay a divided to investors will lead to a better , safer , cleaner , cheaper railway ? |
| 3 | I do n't actually think that a Vice Presidency is somehow , should rule you out of organization |
| 4 | In the years since , we 've kept a Northern Ireland file , and a few months ago we had collected enough encouraging evidence to make us think that a concerted effort would enable us to name the man most consistently pointed at as being in control of the IRA , Martin McGuinness . |
| 5 | Some may think that a mere journalist has no right to hold views about such things . |
| 6 | I do n't think erm on reflection , I do n't think that a three-way table show is a good thing . |
| 7 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |
| 8 | You would think that a macabre form of nepotism had recruited hundreds of Count Dracula 's descendants into the higher reaches of the Civil Service . |
| 9 | In those circumstances , does he really think that a dying Parliament , a week after the Maastricht summit , should empower a lame-duck Prime Minister to use the royal prerogative to sign that treaty without any consultation with the British people whose rights will be affected far more than this Parliament ? |
| 10 | And yes , the police did think that a young person , sex unknown , had been on the scene of the suicide . |
| 11 | The faculty could not think that a young man of 35 years , who had written one book which not everyone thought wonderful , could hold a candle to his predecessor . |
| 12 | ‘ You would n't think that a young man once wrote a poem about my ankles . |
| 13 | Secondly , of course it is true , and it always has been , that if people are asked , ’ Do you think that a Scottish assembly or a Scottish Parliament is a good idea ? ’ , most tend to give a positive response . |
| 14 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 15 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not think that a single relative should ever have the sole care of senile dependent . |
| 17 | I do not think that a defined solution can be provided for all cases . |
| 18 | Would n't you think that a sudden noise like that — like a rifle-shot , I 'd say — would startle a man if he was n't expecting it ? |
| 19 | Papa would think that an odd way to describe the Almighty dollar . |
| 20 | If he was given a chance consistently then I would think that an effective patnership would develope and greatly improve Rocky 's playing — something that no second team football can do — not to mention improving his confidence . |
| 21 | Most people would think that an accomplished director of commercials would n't need to sit on the bottom of the ocean taking pictures of some of the World 's most dangerous creatures . |
| 22 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 23 | He thinks that a proportional representation voting system is more important than the constitutional future of Scotland . |
| 24 | What banana brain thinks that a curved edge to the lid is more important than removing an excess 200g ? |
| 25 | No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man . |
| 26 | The Committee is quoting the Heilbron Report , and appears to be saying that if the public thinks that a particular law covers certain activities and in fact it does cover these activities , then it should for that reason continue to cover only these activities . |
| 27 | It thinks that a sensible way would be to standardise on windows , icons , menus , and command box style via agreement on specific languages — such as C , C++ — for all interfaces , with reusable source code modules , rather than on specific product-oriented solutions . |
| 28 | Everyone thinks that an English Rose complexion is nice but I 'd love to have olive skin . |
| 29 | Some senior managers had thought that a major change in BP Oil 's portfolio might solve some of the problems . |
| 30 | It was long thought that a mere redistribution of duties without any reduction in the total number of employees required or the total amount of work to be done did not amount to redundancy . |