Example sentences of "think that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ To listen to some officers in this army one would think that no other war had ever been fought but in Spain ! |
| 20 | ‘ I do not think that the mere fact of a payment under protest would be sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to succeed ; but I think that it affords some evidence , when accompanied by other circumstances , that the payment was not voluntarily made to end the matter . |
| 21 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 22 | I mean do you think that the actual cutting of the meat should be a managerial task ? |
| 23 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
| 24 | So you can immediately see that it would be quite wrong to make the mistake that people sometimes do make and think that the second model of the mind is really just the first one given new terms and that the ego is equivalent to the conscious . |
| 25 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 26 | He did not think that the then bench in the Church were all well qualified to this end . |
| 27 | Did he think that the Rubenesque figure was still fashionable ? |
| 28 | In any case one may well think that the sheer effort of dotting ‘ i's and crossing ‘ t's was draining . |
| 29 | Does each think that the real money is on the other side ? |
| 30 | So why did Amy think that the Prime Minister was a man ? |