Example sentences of "think it [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrington , still naive though learning , had thought it logical that Hannele should tell her story to the proper authority in person . |
| 2 | Ledeen always thought it self-evident that America should re-open contacts with Iran ; it could profit from the political fissures there , and could perhaps exploit the chaos that would undoubtedly follow the end of the Ayatollah 's rule . |
| 3 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 4 | Nobody thought it odd that Mother Francis often went up the path past the blackberries to read her Office up by the cottage . |
| 5 | At first I thought it ironic that Jean-Claude had chosen a Jewish friend to use . |
| 6 | With hindsight , he thought it probable that Arabella had also been there alone , to meet Ivor . |
| 7 | A National Consumer Council opinion poll this year found 98 per cent thought it important that consumers should have a legal right to demand a replacement or refund if a product can not be repaired reasonably quickly . |
| 8 | It was a measure of the opacity of military affairs that , although no Zuwayi had any evidence of meetings , or of any disproportional conscription , most people thought it plausible that men might be pressed into the army because they were Zuwaya . |
| 9 | Charity with enough resilience to laugh , thought it unlikely that Charles would make a particularly docile prisoner and Clarissa said she 'd write and tell him to behave himself . |
| 10 | I thought it unlikely that Xanthe would ever sleep in that car again , so strong was her present reaction . |
| 11 | Clare did think it odd that Carolyn 's Mum had n't been . |
| 12 | I do not think it possible that datura , Indian or British , or deadly nightshade invaded our menu . ’ |
| 13 | I did n't think it likely that John would be killed — after all , he was n't held by Islamic Jihad — but I felt the tension all the same . |
| 14 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you not think it insane that Man shrinks from his Maker ? |
| 16 | Everyone , bar a few ascetics , thinks it desirable that jobs and housing and education and medical care should be available to all . |
| 17 | In requesting , A must ( a ) want B to come now , ( b ) think it possible that B can come , ( c ) think B is not already there , ( d ) think B was not about to come anyway , ( e ) expect that B will respond with an acceptance or rejection , and if B accepts , then A will also expect B to come , ( f ) think that his ( A 's ) asking may be a possible motive for B to come , ( g ) not be , or be pretending not to be , in a position to order B to come 4 . |
| 18 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 19 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 20 | Still , a suspicion lingers that the gamekeeper 's grandson would like to be the laird , and I think it scandalous that Jackie 's rewards from a nation whose standard-bearer he has so long been , should be a mere OBE. |
| 21 | Thinking it possible that London 's streets would contain martyrs cudgelled to death , he wondered if that might be no bad thing . |