Example sentences of "because we think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We in Fontanellato were not afraid because we thought that apart from houses and farms we had nothing worth bombing . |
| 2 | At that time the Conservative party voted against the Bill because we thought that it was entirely wrong . |
| 3 | The reason why that was founded was because we thought that the women 's movement in this country and its channels of communication and its publications and so on , including Spare Rib at the time , just did not reflect the struggles of either Black women in this country or any other movements within other countries , especially within Third World countries . |
| 4 | While the report argues that it is crucial that social workers identify ‘ high risk ’ , the report comments that ‘ We do not define ‘ high risk ’ , mainly because we think that it is not susceptible of definition' ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 , p.288 ) . |
| 5 | Yet let us always beware of jumping to conclusions , of assuming too readily that those experienced parliamentary draftsmen did not know their business and , perhaps above all , of attributing legislative intention too readily simply because we think that we , the judges , had we been the legislators , would have found such an intention sensible or morally or politically desirable . |
| 6 | We will not support the Government 's proposals in relation to the maintenance of quality in higher education because we think that it is wrong for the people who determine quality in higher education to be the same as those who determine funding — |
| 7 | We use the word " mimicry " for these cases , not because we think that the animals consciously imitate other things , but because natural selection has favoured those individuals whose bodies were mistaken for other things . |