Example sentences of "that the [noun] thought [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value . |
| 2 | The fact that the government thought it vital to supplement the economic incentives of NEP by a new Agrarian Code , brought out at the end of 1922 , showed how far the Famine had altered previous calculations . |
| 3 | It appeared that The Smiths thought they had given enough exposure to James and that Factory were now taking advantage of the situation . |
| 4 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |
| 5 | When they came out the club went mad , and they honestly believed that the crowd thought they were good . ’ |
| 6 | She had dismissed as rubbish Nina 's allegations that the men thought he was interested in her , but she had to admit he was good company , and for the next half-hour he entertained her with stories of his work in Australia , of the people he 'd met and of his excursions into the bush and to the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 7 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 8 | We sang marching across the muddy fields in front of the farmhouse , we sang in the cookhouse tent before we were allowed to eat , we sang at parade before we went off to exercise , and at any point that the staff thought we had nothing to do , it was out with the songbooks . |
| 9 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 10 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |