Example sentences of "think [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 2 | The , as far as publicity is concerned , I think once the scheme starts to , to really move I think we will see a very significant ah availability of publicity on a wide scale of people . |
| 3 | ‘ I think that the boot may be on the other leg ! ’ |
| 4 | Your asking me as chairman of the board and I think I can speak to the board I think that the theatre has actually managed very well . |
| 5 | Indeed , capital movements may offset the current account deficit if speculators think that the exchange rate will recover to its former level in the near future , as could be the case if the current account deficit is thought to be temporary . |
| 6 | If people think that the exchange rate will fall further , importers will buy now before the rate does fall and they have to pay more for the imports . |
| 7 | They need to see a tough manager — someone like you , hey ? — so they never think that the organisation has gone soft . |
| 8 | Most of us probably think that the dole is what you live on when you 're unemployed , a statutory right which was brought in to bury the hated means test of the 1930s However , when the modern national insurance system was introduced in 1948 unemployment benefit was still not expected to be sufficient to maintain a wageless man with wife and children ; it was an arbitrary figure which could be topped up . |
| 9 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 10 | I accept that individual cases are studied carefully , but Sikhs from the Punjab think that the Home Office department in Croydon does not believe any Sikh from the Punjab who claims political asylum . |
| 11 | I think that the editor of The Scotsman would be surprised to hear the views of Opposition Members on that . |
| 12 | The trouble with this is that the viewer , to whom the sea appears to be uniformly blue in the sense of ‘ appears ’ in question , may , in fact , think that the sea merely reflects the colour of the sky , or even that colours exist only in the mind . |
| 13 | I think that the adjective moralistic is really an unkind way of protesting at the fact that she seems to continue to be interested in moral themes which are often associated with Christianity , even if she has got rid of actual orthodox commitment to Christianity itself . |
| 14 | Some people think that the sun goes round the Earth . |
| 15 | Many primary children think that the Sun moves round the Earth . |
| 16 | When you think that the judge has got your point , do not go on repeating it . |
| 17 | ‘ I think that the relationship was n't entirely healthy . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , I think that the influence of Matisse is something which is far more elusive and may not yet have been expressed in painting . |
| 19 | Consider the following two sentences : " I think that the influence of the Anti-Corn Law League has been exaggerated . " |
| 20 | Some think that the abolition of slavery occurred in 1807 . |
| 21 | ‘ If ’ , argues Conklin ( 1977 : 94 ) , ‘ businessmen feel ideologically deprived by government regulation because they think that the law is unfair and unduly restrictive of the economic forces to which they have a strong commitment , they may violate the law ’ . |
| 22 | Some people think that the law of judicial review can not be properly understood unless it is studied against the background of a particular area of governmental activity such as housing or immigration , in order to see how the general rules are use to deal with particular problems . |
| 23 | The fourth is not to believe his own publicity and think that the problem is fixed if the share price goes up . |
| 24 | If you think that the problem leaves open some question of fact , state the law according as the fact is present or absent . |
| 25 | I have already said that , on the question of jurisdiction , I can discern no difference between the policy of the Act of 1914 and that of the Act of 1986 , and under those circumstances I think that the registrar 's decision was right and the appeal must be dismissed . |
| 26 | I think that the way the paint 's put on gives it vitality ’ . |
| 27 | Has he seen the comments of a DSS officer in the same article that benefit fraud is now a national sport and that bogus asylum seekers think that the way in which this country hands out so much money is hilarious ? |
| 28 | About feminism itself , I think that the way I would define it is women having some say , some control over how we 're born , how we live and how we die . |
| 29 | Well I would n't actually say nobody 's excited about it I mean I think that the way these things happen is that they they 're gradual rather than er |
| 30 | Well I think that the way the case is put is that . |