Example sentences of "think [conj] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen , and to make them think that they could say the thing better … |
| 2 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 3 | So that kind of thing made analysts think that they could go on more than just free associations , they could look at a person 's character , as it were . |
| 4 | Erm , I find myself agreeing with what Mr Courcier said , er , about Hambledon , I do n't think it realistic to expect existing settleme , villages within the area of search to form a nucleus for a new settlement , they 're simply too small and would be swamped by any development , and also the er I stand by the statements made yesterday about the environmental quality of the settlements , about there form , settings , and characters , and I really do n't think that they could form the nucleus of a new settlement . |
| 5 | What would they all think if they could see her now ? |
| 6 | Moreover , the report found that single parents were often expected to share a bedroom with a child , where two parents were not , and were seldom offered houses with gardens because it was thought that they could not look after them . |
| 7 | Had the Government not thought that they could get the Bill passed without the House having a serious attempt to debate or qualify it , those matters could have been discussed with experts . |
| 8 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 9 | Quite a few of them thought that they could . |
| 10 | Because the parts , early on , are so small , he thought that they could not be observed , even with his most powerful microscope . |
| 11 | Such values can not be measured by numbers ( though Jeremy Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) , the founder of utilitarianism , thought that they could ) , but are no less real for all that . |
| 12 | Ramsay asked Fraser if he thought that they could risk assuming the Regent 's agreement to this , and grinning , that man averred that Sir Archie Douglas would agree to anything that spared him trouble . |
| 13 | Fleischmann and Pons thought that they could achieve cold fusion by another route . |
| 14 | Only 51 per cent of the girls over 16 had attempted to avoid pregnancy ; others thought that they could not become pregnant because they were too young or had sex too infrequently . |
| 15 | Thus , whereas classicism 's image of human nature portrayed all human beings as being fully responsible for their own actions , Bentham saw criminals as having limited rationality and responsibility , but thought that they could be made more rational by the correct application of reformative techniques in his ‘ mill for grinding rogues honest ’ , as he called the Panopticon . |
| 16 | They thought that they could wear her down . |
| 17 | It is not the most that could be done to protect the consumer , but the least that the Government thought that they could get away with . |
| 18 | He thought that they could simply close the doors and everything would be all right . |
| 19 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
| 20 | The project team think that they could carry out the further research in an additional year at an estimated cost of £20 000 , but that the chances of solving all the problems are only 30:70 as opposed to the 50:50 chance they gave the initial phase . |
| 21 | The project team think that they could carry out the further research in an additional year at an estimated cost of £20 000 , but that the chances of solving all the problems are only 30 : 70 as opposed to the 50 : 50 chance they gave the initial phase . |
| 22 | but they think that they could er be on the way to er actually making a |
| 23 | Psychiatrists used to think that they could determine where free will began and ended and could decide objectively whether a defendant was sane or not . |
| 24 | Failure to react would allow the English to think that they could do as they wished . |
| 25 | The GIST team seemed to think that they could brush aside any anxieties about the difficulties of being a woman in science by presenting a series of bright , appealing images . |
| 26 | The Deputy Prosecutor-General of Russia , Yevgeny Lisov , who had carried out the investigation , said on Jan. 22 that there was no evidence implicating former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the coup , but that his actions might have led the conspirators to think that they could count on his support . |
| 27 | To think that they could end up like me , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I think if they could talk they would ask visitors not to throw food into their enclosure . |
| 29 | they 'd stop all night I think if they could , so |
| 30 | He was correct in so far as our forebears were piteously shattered but quite wrong in thinking that they could be subjugated . |