Example sentences of "[conj] think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Without this information , the speechreader may appear to interrupt rudely or think that something is going on that he is missing . |
| 3 | Is ‘ The sea appears to a viewer to be the same colour all over ’ simply an alternative way of saying ‘ The viewer is of the opinion that ( or judges that , or thinks that ) the sea is the same colour all over ? ’ |
| 4 | " All men have said or thought that at one time or another . |
| 5 | Those solicitors , in their turn , caused or thought that they had caused the documents to be dispatched direct to the father and the mother with a covering letter specifically directing attention to the desirability of obtaining independent legal advice . |
| 6 | He was so full of contradictions , she thought despairingly ; so nearly describing the marriage he 'd got — with Bella — and the one that he would like to have … or thought that he would ! |
| 7 | Or thought that he did . |
| 8 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 9 | Everyone will either sympathize with your terrible squint or think that you are offering some form of invitation . |
| 10 | If you have any queries or think that you may not be obtaining your full pension entitlement , you should contact your local Social Security office as soon as possible . |
| 11 | These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political or academic axe to grind and who are , or think that they are , the blessed recipients of some God-given intuition which enables them to divine the actual mind of Parliament , no matter how obscure or equivocal the language in which it has chosen to express itself . |
| 12 | This introduction to Piggy makes you immediately either sympathise with him or think that he was a pathetic little boy . |
| 13 | The fact was , he had not felt in the book the impress of Walter Machin 's personality , as he had come to know it — or to think that he knew it . |
| 14 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 15 | Of all the groups that thought that Mr Clinton was their man , three are most important . |
| 16 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 17 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 18 | It is a thing that is only important if you are some sort of lonely fan who loves The Wedding Present and thinks that David is a lovely , sincere person . |
| 19 | The story begins at Limehouse Reach where Gaffer Hexam , pursuing his trade of recovering dead bodies from the river , finds the drowned man supposed to be young Harmon ; it is upstream near Henley that Bradley Headstone attacks and thinks that he has killed Eugene Wrayburn , his hated rival for the love of Lizzie Hexam . |
| 20 | ( I suppose RE lessons would be the only exception to this rule , but when you 've got an RE teacher that does n't believe in the existence of God and thinks that Jesus was an astronaut there 's a limit to how ‘ Christian ’ Religious Education really can be ! ) |
| 21 | As an example , take someone who tries to give up smoking and thinks that they have lost the fight completely when they want their first cigarette . |
| 22 | Eric relates an anecdote about finding out how certain animals only mate for four years and thinks that this probably applies to humans . |
| 23 | If they last , Phillips believes that joint ventures may hold the answer and thinks that the new shareholders who will take stakes after the existing owners are forced to divest themselves of 51% of ITN could provide the answer . |
| 24 | Celia is easy-going about her sitters , and thinks that the English are not particularly vain when it comes to portraits : ‘ I find people are often very nervous about how they look , and not at all arrogant . |
| 25 | Like many other colleges and educational establishments , Gateshead college is worried about that trend and thinks that it will increase in the future , particularly if nothing is done . |
| 26 | So that in itself would make people stop and think that they are going to take work away from health service and social service workers . |
| 27 | You may snort and think that this is very far-fetched but you can be assured that the majority of lecturers who appear before you not only know their subjects but are enthusiastic about them and about transmitting their knowledge to you . |
| 28 | In the Diaspora , our Jewish people have been inclined to sit back and think that the battle has been won and that in a little while we Jews will have our National Home in our Promised Land . |
| 29 | So you can immediately see that it would be quite wrong to make the mistake that people sometimes do make and think that the second model of the mind is really just the first one given new terms and that the ego is equivalent to the conscious . |
| 30 | There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth . |