Example sentences of "think the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Military analysts say President Bush is deluded if he thinks the 30,000 troops will be home by January 20 , when Bill Clinton takes over . |
| 2 | One gripes and holds off and bangs the pillows and thinks the real thing is to come , and then one starts to lose the thread . |
| 3 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 4 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 5 | Mr Craxi thinks the new rules would penalise smaller parties such as his own ; hence the speculation that he would rather bring down the government than allow the referendums to happen . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Maryon Lane , one of two further South African girls ( the other being Patricia Miller ) who joined in August 1947 , thinks the chief cause of ill-will had been the obnoxious behaviour of one person , and says she herself never suffered from resentment but was accepted by the company where everyone seemed like family . |
| 7 | The Straw Race is a lot of hard work and a lot of fun , but Martin Jay , chairman of the race , thinks the best part is ‘ giving the money away at the end , when all the hard work finally feels worthwhile ’ . |
| 8 | Who was the , who , who do you thinks the best dance in your class ? |
| 9 | It was a long time ago and the memory plays tricks but Derek thinks the following account is fairly accurate . |
| 10 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 11 | Indeed , Ross thinks the moral philosopher must take the deliverances of common morality as his basic data ( as Moore , in spite of his much proclaimed faith in ‘ common sense ’ did not ) though this is because it rests on intuitions of necessary truth . |
| 12 | Everyone thinks the implicit extension includes one or the other of these latter propositions , but they disagree which , because they disagree which solution best interprets the abstract goal on which they agree of equality of opportunity in court . |
| 13 | He thinks the criminal-justice system may be ‘ on the point of collapse ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Greenwood , who was the main architect of the currency link , thinks the present rate is about right . |
| 15 | Sheffield United have been trapped by the candid camera too often in the past and Bassett thinks the prying lens is wrong in all sorts of ways . |
| 16 | Rachel 's former fiance revealed that he thinks the health-conscious Vogue model was duped into taking the drug at the bash at Wavertree Recreation Club in Liverpool . |
| 17 | Detective Chief Inspector George Brown thinks the two men being hunted in connection with the vicious murder may have fled the region until they think it is safe to return . |
| 18 | AND still there are two nations in England , if only because part of it thinks the other part is somewhere else . |
| 19 | ‘ IF anyone thinks the bald figures tell you anything about the quality or hard work of the consultant , then they are living in cloud cuckoo land ’ — Karl Fortes Mayer , 51 , a general surgeon at Walsall Manor Hospital in the West Midlands , commenting on publication of his patient waiting times . |
| 20 | Jeff thinks the same way . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm glad someone else thinks the same way ’ . |
| 22 | That 's correct yes and I do n't blame them and er if Stuart Argyle thinks the same way we 'll we 'll certainly er see what we can do about pressing for keeping these trees . |
| 23 | He thinks the same way as I do about our work . |
| 24 | Because the Pope , according to Bernard and his friends , alone among all men had the ear of God , and God , it seems , thinks the more people down here on earth the better . |
| 25 | ‘ He thinks the whole world revolves around his flipping programme . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Gorbachev still thinks the old system can be reformed . |
| 27 | And Terry thinks the old implements have lost character . |
| 28 | We have to understand first of all what Mill thinks the proper function of government |
| 29 | Here he spells out why he thinks the British monarchy 's days are numbered . |
| 30 | Sir Eric thinks the British university system , after years of financial squeeze , is suffering ‘ graceful degradation ’ . |