Example sentences of "think that [art] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapist did not think that the overdose had been associated with serious suicidal intent , nor that David was suffering from a psychiatric illness . |
| 2 | It 's thought that the fire had been caused by a welders spark . |
| 3 | In some of the early work on TL dating of ocean sediments , it was thought that the TL observed was produced by foraminifera or radiolaria and that the zeroing mechanism was the formation of their shells . |
| 4 | When chimpanzees were ‘ taught sentences ’ such as ‘ Mary give Sarah apple ’ , using plastic symbols to represent each word , some animal behaviourists , as well as the popular media , always ready for a selling story , thought that a breakthrough had been achieved : that a chimpanzee had been taught to understand grammar — an intricate part of all human , conceptual thought processes , involving human perceptive abilities . |
| 5 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 6 | The Head of Department , however , said that he thought that the effort had been worthwhile and that he could not imagine any other means as effective . |
| 7 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |