Example sentences of "he did not think that " in BNC.

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1 He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal .
2 When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester .
3 He did not think that the then bench in the Church were all well qualified to this end .
4 He did not think that Ramsey would be interested in the load of administration which he would have to carry .
5 He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’
6 He did not think that a ‘ good artistic work can be the joint production of two minds ’ .
7 But with most of the enemy leaders undoubtedly caught in the castle , he did not think that the surprised army would be in a position to counter-attack swiftly .
8 There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great .
9 He did not think that the house was watched that day .
10 He did not think that they were adequately prepared for their roles as modern doctors .
11 He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . "
12 He made it clear to Law that he did not think that Law was well qualified to be leader and that he reserved the right to contest any future vacancy , but Austen was too loyal a man to conspire ; relations were not very friendly , but there was total cooperation .
13 He did not think that the boy was the actual thief and he hoped that the boy would not be punished .
14 He did not think that their ambitions extended far into Western Europe but he thought it had been a serious error to let the Russians take Berlin and establish themselves there .
15 He did not think that the True People were the result of some genetic accident .
16 He did not think that swordplay was very dangerous , even when practised indoors .
17 I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand .
18 He did not think that anyone at St Basil 's had even noticed him so far .
19 Clem Attlee nationalised the Bank of England because he did not think that we should have rule by central bankers .
20 He said that he did not think that it was a high priority to ask the Home Secretary to take £40 million out of his budget and put it on to the Secretary of State for Transport 's budget .
21 He did not think that he would get away with it .
22 He said in terms that he did not think that the Soviets posed a threat to western Europe .
23 US Senator Larry Pressler , author of a 1985 amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act under which aid to Pakistan had in October 1990 been barred [ see pp. 37764 ; 38726 ] , said in Delhi on Jan. 11 that he would oppose extending the amendment to India as he did not think that the country had a nuclear weapons programme .
24 The Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt had likewise said that it would participate in the elections , although Jumblatt on July 17 expressed reservations about the new electoral law , reiterating that he did not think that conditions were yet right for the holding of elections .
25 As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime .
26 So A would be less than fully co-operative or rational if he did not think that B knew ( or could find out ) where he was .
27 He did not think that an increase in the multiplier was a suitable method of protecting against inflation .
28 He was n't trading on his name ; he did n't think that that would have any particular influence .
29 He did n't think that the US would do a Suez in the Middle East .
30 But he did n't think that he would .
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