Example sentences of "think they have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 2 | I do n't think , ‘ I want this to be a religious painting ’ , but I do think they have a religious subtext . |
| 3 | Do you think they have a proper magazine in the Sunday Express ? |
| 4 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 5 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 6 | ‘ Funny place to have an office — I thought they had a main HO in Basle , thirty minutes down the autobahn from Freiburg . ’ |
| 7 | The Euro-sceptics think they have a small chance of ambushing the government with snap divisions on any of the hundreds of amendments already put down . |
| 8 | Villa are at White Hart Lane this afternoon with Livermore saying : ‘ We have watched them closely and think they have a great chance of winning the League . |
| 9 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 10 | Once they think they have a clear idea of which holiday would sell best to the public , they promote and market it . |
| 11 | We think they have a special and complex responsibility of impartiality among the members of the community and of partiality toward them in dealings with strangers . |
| 12 | I think they have a huge bearing on our activities . |
| 13 | On the other side are the managers of enterprises who think they have a commercial future . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |