Example sentences of "they think [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they would tell us , if they were allowed to spend more , where do they think the funds come from , and who do they think 's going to pay ? |
| 2 | I want Mum to ask the doctor why they keep testing me — what do they think is wrong ? |
| 3 | What do they think is good about our brand ? |
| 4 | What , what they thought is that all the ones that |
| 5 | What they thought is because he 's assessing them and she 's , they 're assessing us while he 's assessing them . |
| 6 | And they believe that 's another eye as it were , towards their spirit which they think 's , you know it 's a middle eye of , of |
| 7 | Well not disappointed that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox because obviously they 're going to need a very strong side if they 're going to win anything so erm you know , with guys like Marvin around , then it 's got to be a good idea , you know , they 've obviously made a big jump there to grab someone they think 's going to make a difference . |
| 8 | Politicians do this all the time , turning any given question into a cue for making the point they think is important and never mind what their questioner wants to hear . |
| 9 | At a recent meeting of Somerset and South Avon NFU 's executive committee , members were concerned about what they think is a growing population of badgers . |
| 10 | ‘ Obviously , everyone has to do what they think is right , ’ he said . |
| 11 | If they feel that the committee is erring they have a duty to intervene and point out what they think is the best course . |
| 12 | Such parents value obedience as a virtue and favour punitive , forceful measures to curb self-will at those points where the child 's actions or beliefs conflict with what they think is proper conduct . |
| 13 | ‘ We are open to suggestions and ideas for the group ’ , said Diane , ‘ and we hope parents will tell us what they think is needed . |
| 14 | People functioning on an imposed bias may be severely handicapped when what they think is expected of them is at some level distonic to their whole being . |
| 15 | Their own experience leads them on , for example , to rejecting a full box or bucket that they think is too heavy for them to carry . |
| 16 | Obviously the ratio of direct to indirect work varies with different occupations but , in nearly all , practitioners find that they spend more time on the latter than they think is appropriate . |
| 17 | What they think is private is in fact public . |
| 18 | Er , judging by the noise I can hear some people have finished , some people have extremely short statements of about what they think is important and some people have got no statements . |
| 19 | Erm this time everyone 's at Wembley and you 're asking people , Right , if you draw this time we draw three big circles in the middle of Wembley , okay , and ask people to come and say which football team they think is a good one . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I do n't pay any attention to what they think is best for me . |
| 21 | I was moved by the account , seeing resemblances between the experience of these women , dead many thousands of years before , and women alive now who weep over men whose love they think is dead but try to revive with their tears . |
| 22 | The first is the market research model in which clients and potential clients are asked what services they would find helpful and what they think is wrong with current provision and how they think it might be improved . |
| 23 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |
| 24 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |
| 25 | The thought pleases me but what they think is irrelevant really ; it 's Marcus that I 'm saving myself for . |
| 26 | I think that people live in such a world of fantasy around what they think is going on and kidding themselves that they have some ‘ control ’ , that a kind of chink in the armour like that is terrifying . |
| 27 | Rather he thinks that people ought to vote on the basis of what they think is right so he uses an with the jury service at this point . |
| 28 | The community has decided , that is , to delegate to judges the power to decide lawsuits in whatever way they think is in the best interests of the community as a whole and to invent working as-if theories of legal rights , including theories of legislation and precedent , with that purpose in mind . |
| 29 | Now researchers at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in Oxford say they have found what they call a candidate gene which they think is likely to make someone vulnerable to asthma . |
| 30 | ‘ Everybody has different views on what they think is right . |