Example sentences of "we think [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should we think that metabolism is controlled , but not the vortex ? |
| 2 | We thought that No. 10 was under-equipped to deal with the great departments of state . |
| 3 | ‘ We thought that acquisitions were very important to do right now because of the economy — we have a short-term window . |
| 4 | When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else . |
| 5 | I believe that the opposition should have insisted on having a vote on a motion in which the government could have asked for support , and we would have put down an amendment saying that we thought that sanctions should have been given longer . |
| 6 | In fact , the only similarity between the film and Allan Wells ' training was Harold Abraham 's high knee stepping drills — and we thought that exercise was invented by Don Quarrie ! |
| 7 | ‘ We thought that Cadbury was realistic within the terms of reference he was given , ’ said Chris Swinson , chairman of the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group . |
| 8 | ‘ There were times when we thought that Mandy was very seriously ill . |
| 9 | We thought that Jerusalem sooner or later would be an international city . |
| 10 | The field lay alongside a road in a London suburb and we thought that people could stand on the road and look across six metres into the field to the platform where the ceremony would take place . |
| 11 | And we thought that sort of IQ was usually reserved for drummers … |
| 12 | ‘ We thought that Italians always tested the silver to see if it was real . ’ |
| 13 | That 's what we thought until Helen was diagnosed . |
| 14 | ‘ We think that quadrant of Darlington and that particular site is right for a superstore . ’ |
| 15 | In the same way , we think that credit agreements could usefully include a strike-out clause , arranging credit insurance and adding its cost to the instalments automatically unless it is struck out . |
| 16 | If we think that stealing is wrong , then it 's just as wrong whether we are likely to be found out or not . |
| 17 | We think that physics is complicated because it is hard for us to understand , and because physics books are full of difficult mathematics . |
| 18 | He has paid out nearly £12 million in 14 months , and said : ‘ We will pay a price for anybody , provided we think that price is right . ’ |
| 19 | We think that consideration should be given to three changes in the procedures of the High Court . |
| 20 | ‘ We think that music is a good thing , ’ says Tunnicliffe ; ‘ If you look at our everyday lives , many of us live in a music-filled environment so there is a reasonable chance that it will be a positive thing . |
| 21 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 22 | Indeed , he went further to say that ‘ APPN is the commercial solution without any doubt , ’ and that ‘ We think that APPN will be the standard ; for routing SNA you will need APPN ’ . |
| 23 | Despite the dangers of fatal decompensation , we think that interferon alfa should be considered for treating patients with cirrhosis . |
| 24 | However , we think that Club Couples should be more than slightly special , and to this end our Couples Clubreps will be on hand with a few ideas , designed with a slightly more subdued mood in mind . |
| 25 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 26 | We think that Kos is an exceptional place for seeing traditional Greece and still having a great holiday with all the nightlife you can imagine . |
| 27 | And we think that Gen McCreery would have given short shrift to anyone who tried to pull the wool over his eyes . |
| 28 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 29 | There is allergic asthma , there 's also exercise-induced asthma and stress-induced asthma , for example , er as far as allergic asthma is concerned , we think that people have to be exposed to the allergens er early in their life , in order to become sensitized , and once sensitized , they will respond to these allergens and er have asthma attacks . |
| 30 | We think that power is a limited resource , and if one person has it then another one ca n't . |