Example sentences of "think it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only increase smaller than the £15 is in what is known as the terminal illness category for nursing homes , for reasons that I explained to the House in my uprating statement , where we have instead thought it more appropriate to make , through the Department of Health , an additional grant of £1 million specifically directed to the funding of hospices . |
| 2 | ‘ However , on this occasion I thought it not unreasonable to take a risk . |
| 3 | I thought it only civil to break the ice with this boy of hitherto laggardly intelligence who had somehow scrambled his way to a temporary plateau of scholastic proximity . |
| 4 | As a professional carver I thought it only natural to get my hands on one of those new Arbortech Woodcarvers to add to my compendium of tools last year . |
| 5 | I owe the club a lot and thought it only sensible to continue . ’ |
| 6 | Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds . |
| 7 | I thought it only fair to let you know . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 9 | This lady on my right , Katherine Powell , does all the hard work and committee reports , and I thought it only fair to bring her here today , because she 's the person that does the set fifty-threes , |
| 10 | I said I thought it too valuable to wear constantly and had put it in my dressing-table drawer . |
| 11 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 12 | Those familiar with piston singles would think it not possible to slow down a sleek aircraft that fast , because even airbrakes can not provide such deceleration . |
| 13 | Someone concerned at the suffering might well think it more appropriate to work for reformation rather than abolition . |
| 14 | Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ? |
| 15 | Since this sentence explains the context for what precedes , we might think it more natural to place it ( deprived of the connecting words " And then " ) at the beginning of the paragraph . |
| 16 | Might they not think it more sensible to throw in their lot with their fellow Germans west of the Elbe , who know as much about running a liberal capitalist society as anybody , and have abundant reserves of capital , not to speak of generous welfare benefits ? |
| 17 | He thinks it plainly better to insist that when a statute is deeply unclear it can not be the source of as-if legal rights at all , that the right rule is whichever rule is best for the future . |
| 18 | There are those who think it rather offensive to erect such permanent climbing aids on a wild mountain , although we 're not exactly talking a carved mahogany banister with brass handrails . |
| 19 | I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed . |
| 20 | Uncle Hilbert , however , was only just sixty , very hale and hearty , still very much in practice as a solicitor , and Lewis could not imagine stepping into his shoes , nor did he in those days think it very nice to anticipate such things . |
| 21 | Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us . |
| 22 | This respondent was also concerned about the failure of social workers to work for rehabilitation , stating , ‘ There are lots of social workers who think it quite appropriate to take a child away from dodgy natural parents and work avidly towards replacing it with adoptive ones . ’ |