Example sentences of "we think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should we think that metabolism is controlled , but not the vortex ? |
| 2 | Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level . |
| 3 | Do we , do we think that generally speaking , our judges are in touch with public opinion , generally . |
| 4 | At the start of this test we thought that we were reviewing an all-purpose saw , but in fact we discovered that the Bosch All Purpose saw , model PFZ 550 PE , is a lot more ‘ all purpose ’ than we thought . |
| 5 | ‘ I assume that we thought that these dependants would wish to accompany their soldiers and that the soldiers would wish to have them with them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We thought that they would throw everything at us from the start , ’ said Andy Probert , 38 , the Cambridge cox — and so it proved . |
| 8 | ‘ We thought that Italians always tested the silver to see if it was real . ’ |
| 9 | When the transistor came along , we thought that with valves and relays out of the way , electronics would never ( well , hardly ever ) break down . |
| 10 | ‘ We thought that if we did n't like the Arab sector of Jerusalem after partition , ’ Damiani said , ‘ we would also have property in the Jewish sector . |
| 11 | We thought that Jerusalem sooner or later would be an international city . |
| 12 | We thought that an identity existed beyond the civil conflict . |
| 13 | We thought that our evenings in The Bar could simply be bought . |
| 14 | We thought that that made the members of the band faceless . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We thought that No. 10 was under-equipped to deal with the great departments of state . |
| 17 | On the other hand , as Pasteur so wisely pointed out over 100 years ago ‘ fortune favours the prepared mind ’ , and so we thought that a theme based on understanding the science rather than say on product development ought to tip the balance of probabilities in favour of the unexpected innovation we are looking for . |
| 18 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 19 | ‘ We got to the stage where we thought that there was nothing else in life , ’ shudders Paul . |
| 20 | ‘ There were times when we thought that Mandy was very seriously ill . |
| 21 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 22 | Armstrong said : ‘ We thought that , after two successive wins , the talk would have died down . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | At first , we could only hear the wagons and we thought that it could be someone hand-shunting , but at this time of night ? |
| 25 | We thought that the women in socialism would never be seen by their men as anything except an ‘ uppity ’ lump stuck on their side . |
| 26 | We thought that if women wanted to know about separatism they could read this , and then leave us in peace . |
| 27 | And we thought that sort of IQ was usually reserved for drummers … |
| 28 | ‘ We thought that acquisitions were very important to do right now because of the economy — we have a short-term window . |
| 29 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 30 | Suddenly everyone seems to be talking about the menopause so we thought that you 'd better hear what women really think . |