Example sentences of "think that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be provided at Sunday school but I would think that the average Christian parents have the same feeling of unease about discussing faith with the children as they do about discussing sex . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | I mean do you think that the actual cutting of the meat should be a managerial task ? |
| 5 | 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 ) |
| 6 | At the same time I do nt think that the tremendous male power in the world , even within national liberation movements , can be ignored , because I think that the oppression is two-fold . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He did not think that the then bench in the Church were all well qualified to this end . |
| 10 | She regards these sessions away from the routine work as some of the most interesting aspects of the job and does not think that the mundane elements of a house officer 's post could be ‘ dumped ’ on another person without some such perks to ‘ relieve the boredom . ’ |
| 11 | Did he think that the Rubenesque figure was still fashionable ? |
| 12 | In any case one may well think that the sheer effort of dotting ‘ i's and crossing ‘ t's was draining . |
| 13 | In sum , I do not think that the practical difficulties arising from a limited relaxation of the rule are sufficient to outweigh the basic need for the courts to give effect to the words enacted by Parliament in the sense that they were intended by Parliament to bear . |
| 14 | Does each think that the real money is on the other side ? |
| 15 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 16 | So why did Amy think that the Prime Minister was a man ? |
| 17 | After the two opt-outs negotiated by the Prime Minister at Maastricht , does Chancellor Kohl still think that the Prime Minister is a good European ? |
| 18 | One would think that the present money-motivated Government would realise that encouraging people to carry donor cards and promoting a healthier lifestyle would give better results . |
| 19 | I do not think that the 23,000 people presently involved in the Trident programme think that their efforts are wasted . |
| 20 | Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others . |
| 21 | ‘ Even allowing for the subject under exposition that evening , ’ he said , ‘ I would hardly think that the two were connected . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think there was a lot of loyalty and desire for the marriage to work out , particularly between Vicki and I. I mean , you 'd think that the two sisters would have bonded together against everyone , but there would be different … coalitions . |
| 23 | So I do n't think that the two crosses which is given on the A sixty four north . |
| 24 | She was not particularly eager to share the information with Leif — though doubtless he would bombard her with searching questions , as he had done before — but she had made Vitor think that the two of them were close . |
| 25 | ‘ You did n't think that the other day , ’ she said . |
| 26 | I do not think that the Labour party could possibly repay the debt that it owes to the late Captain Maxwell . |
| 27 | I do not think that the Labour party has anything to crow about , because Labour-controlled local authorities have the most empty homes available and have the highest community charges . |
| 28 | I I do n't think myself and I still have an open mind and I do n't think that the Labour case erm adds up to be perfectly honest . |
| 29 | I wish the skiing industry and skiers every success for many seasons to come , but I do not think that the last few indifferent seasons have a timely message . |
| 30 | Do you think that the Foreign Office , successive British governments , were playing a silly game ? |