Example sentences of "think [conj] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’ |
| 2 | I do not think that these qualities arise wholly , or even mainly , as it is so often assumed , from the character of its buildings and the beauty of the natural forms , such as trees , which stand in juxtaposition to them . |
| 3 | Do you think that these women can actually have children ? |
| 4 | Why do you think that these girls come to London , in the first place ? |
| 5 | But I do not think that these circumstances demonstrate a contract between the valuer as principal and the borrower . |
| 6 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
| 7 | Ken Smith , electronics director of the Scottish Development Agency , thinks that these firms have helped to promote the growth of other electronics firms in the region and the fact that they are foreign-owned is unimportant . |
| 8 | Hilgard thinks that these procedures cause the normal ‘ monitor ’ of reality to retreat into the background and allow another part of consciousness , temporarily ‘ split off ’ from the reality monitor , to become active independently . |
| 9 | Well , I 'm not sure that 's correct , but anyway Mill thinks that these ideas local participation of jury service are ways of getting people involved at the highest practical level of participation . |
| 10 | One might have thought that these trends would not present major difficulties since one apparent virtue of the British constitution was its flexibility . |
| 11 | Minton asked on arriving , proving this revelation with the thousand-franc notes he produced and which enabled his young friends each in turn to take Mimi or Fifi upstairs , Hunt having previously thought that these girls , whom they drew and took dancing , were secretaries . |
| 12 | Until recently , however , it was thought that these laws did not apply to the beginning of the universe . |
| 13 | One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’ |
| 14 | It is thought that these cases were brought more for publicity , to force the health authority to act , than in the hope of legal success . |
| 15 | You 'd thought that these houses could of least put a bit of paint on |
| 16 | As a result of the considerable experience with percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , it was thought that these problems could be rapidly solved and the technique established to replace percutaneous cholecystolithotomy as it could be performed under local anaesthaesia by the transhepatic route and a postprocedural drain could be avoided . |
| 17 | Until very recently , it was thought that these symphonies , unlike almost all Mozart 's other music , were written for no specific occasion , but as the result of an inner impulse . |
| 18 | The Committee thought that these principles might be satisfied by using a series of tests from about the age of 14 . |
| 19 | Her face was too square and her features were too irregular , though most people thought that these defects were more than compensated by her radiant smile and long-lashed hazel eyes . |
| 20 | ‘ I assume that we thought that these dependants would wish to accompany their soldiers and that the soldiers would wish to have them with them . |
| 21 | If Franco thought that these gestures would be sufficient to change the policies towards Spain of governments whose democratic principles he despised and violated , he was shortly disabused of the notion . |
| 22 | However , they thought that these aspects were outweighed by the loss of headquarters functions and their multipliers from Scotland , and concluded that UK mergers policy was blind to some of these issues . |
| 23 | Many people thought that these days had been stolen from them . |
| 24 | If you think that these approaches will make matters worse , it may simply be better to ask for a transfer or move to new pastures . |
| 25 | I could do with you on my permanent staff — but I think that these articles will hit home , cause a stir , such a stir as Henry Mayhew created some time ago when he , too , wrote of the cabined and confined lives of the capital 's poor . |
| 26 | I think today that if someone was designing a house one would incorporate all the modern additions which have suddenly become fashionable such as double porches , doubleglazing and er patio windows , I think that these things are perhaps a development from , in the same way as this house is a development from the rooms and the flats we lived in in London so that the modern conceptions of the things I 've mentioned could be incorporated as normal in the house certainly would be cheaper to incorporate them when building the house than adding them on . |
| 27 | And do you know think that these cairns possibly were there to guide them as mu as much as anything ? |
| 28 | It would 've been better but erm I think that these terms have now become so widely known there 's , there 's no way of changing it back . |
| 29 | I was trying to suggest that instead of actually definitely writing novels with a very straightforward moral theme , the theme of the novel being that you must do this or terrible things will happen , instead of doing that erm she is anxious to write novels which show you moral possibilities , that somebody or other may actually get into difficulty because they fail to understand something about somebody else and I think that these novels are intended to tell people more about themselves that erm they might otherwise realize . |
| 30 | But nevertheless I think that these colleagues , if they look carefully at the fundamentals of their own assumptions , will find that they are begging just as many questions as I am . |