Example sentences of "[adv] think [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That that you obviously think is so important . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the creatures we generally think are alive are not clays ; they are dogs and humans and trees and mosses . |
| 3 | Umpire Woodward was also standing during delays most thought were unnecessary in the Napier Test between New Zealand and India in 1990 , and at last year 's Wellington v Sri Lankans match ( ‘ We will not tolerate a repeat , ’ said national chairman Peter McDermott and executive director Graham Dowling at that stage ) . |
| 4 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 5 | What could you possibly think is wrong with my brother 's temperament ? ’ |
| 6 | We did n't fish in the accepted sense , which I 've always thought was a ghoulish thing to do anyway . |
| 7 | " Now at last " , said Richard , " I must believe what I had always thought was impossible . " |
| 8 | That was another programme which I , I 've always thought was alright . |
| 9 | In several advertisements by dealers I have noticed the following genera , which I have always thought were mostly known as houseplants : |
| 10 | Once thought is freed from the concrete situation the way is clear for symbolic manipulation and for Piaget 's stage of formal operation in which the real becomes a sub-set of the possible . |
| 11 | Once thought is freed from the concrete situation the way is clear for symbolic manipulation and for Piaget 's stage of formal operation in which the real becomes a sub-set of the possible ’ ( ibid. p. 172 ) . |
| 12 | The French army , which the Duke still thought was massing south of the border , was probably the finest instrument that Napoleon had ever commanded . |
| 13 | But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt . |
| 14 | As a student of child abuse , I regularly encountered forms of cruelty to children I hardly thought were possible . |
| 15 | Speaking for the first time Vicky is now disillusioned with the man she once thought was a prophet and is writing a book about it . |
| 16 | I always thought being famous was the only thing worth doing in human life , and anything else was just perfunctory . |
| 17 | For years , it was supposed to be crucial to bonding for baby to open its eyes on Mum and Dad in the first instants of life , which I always thought was a lot of toffee . |
| 18 | Gorey is easy to find , out on the east coast , looking out over the sands and round to the point where the castle I always thought was in St Helier actually is . |
| 19 | They can even be frightened by wild birds flying overhead , which they mistakenly think are predators . |
| 20 | You can be a sex symbol when you 're sixty-five ; there are film stars like Paul Newman whom women still think are gorgeous . |
| 21 | There are areas , one or two of which I will go on to elude to , which I still think are actually going to make for the greatest savings in the coming financial year and thereafter . |
| 22 | I 'm the woman you still think is involved with your sister 's husband , remember ? ’ she said hastily as his fingers closed round her wrist . |
| 23 | Armiger flopped in the Great Voltigeur at York behind Bob 's Return who is on course for the St Leger and this winner of the Sandown Classic Trial in April would be my choice in the absence of Royal Ballerina , whom I still think is good enough to win a Classic for the likeable Kauntze . |
| 24 | Armiger flopped in the Great Voltigeur at York behind Bob 's Return who is on course for the St Leger and this winner of the Sandown Classic Trial in April would be my choice in the absence of Royal Ballerina , whom I still think is good enough to win a Classic for the likeable Kauntze . |
| 25 | And that 's where a lot of it and she still think 's that he 's |
| 26 | Which I still think was quite quick in the circumstances . |
| 27 | I will begin with what I always think is the queerest of the social services , and the one with the strangest story — subsidised housing . |
| 28 | Do you know what they always think is selfishness ? |
| 29 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 30 | Storming into the restaurant where the Italian and Miss Maughan 's character were dining , he invented some story about having to keep her away from the paparazzi ( which he probably thinks is the coffee you buy in Venice ) and whisked her off her feet back to his place . |