Example sentences of "[adj] because they think " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 2 | Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop . |
| 3 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 4 | If so , it would have to do it without Kinnock , and at the risk of alienating Scots and Welsh Unionists who still vote Labour because they think economic and social matters more important than constitutional reform . |
| 5 | Maybe just some Iranian hotheads getting upset because they think they 've been subjected to a con trick by the arms dealers . |
| 6 | The home fans were angry because they thought Andy Ansah was offside when big striker Ian Benjamin hit the 75th-minute winner . |
| 7 | They left me alone because they thought I had hours to go . |
| 8 | People meet me and they get all excited because they think I 'm going to have something funny to say . |
| 9 | Sometimes , though , doctors prescribe more medicines than are necessary because they think that most of their patients always expect a prescription . |
| 10 | As soon as a a a a a woman , erm or a lady stands up to be counted she 's looked about , she 's looked at as being aggressive , not assertive , as first it 's aggressive because they think it 's the challenge again . |