Example sentences of "be think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 2 | If you 're thinking that means people had started to feel they were being got at , you would be right . |
| 3 | So as long as you you 're thinking that they 're doing okay and meeting the market demand . |
| 4 | I 'd kind of been hoping they 'd take the cuffs off me altogether by now but I suppose they 're thinking that the body in the shaft does n't prove anything by itself , and that Andy could still be dead , or he could be alive and he — or somebody else — could have kidnapped Halziel and Lingary to provide cover for me . |
| 5 | You 're thinking that the gross is round about seven percent . |
| 6 | ‘ If they 're thinking that , they should be put straight , ’ said Rachel grimly . |
| 7 | It had been thought that Mr Prescott would replace Bryan Gould , the trade and industry spokesman . |
| 8 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 9 | For instance , it has often been thought that the progress of a military campaign , such as the invasions of the Germanic peoples into the northern Roman empire of the third and fourth centuries , could be plotted from the locations of hoards , or that areas with large numbers of hoards must have been relatively rich compared with other areas . |
| 10 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 11 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 12 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 13 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 14 | Until now it has been thought that interferon can do little to prevent the initial entry of viruses into a cell . |
| 15 | It has been thought that aircraft maintenance problems i.e. planning/scheduling activities , aircraft system/equipment failure diagnosis , etc. , are too large and complex to be tackled successfully with computers . |
| 16 | Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets . |
| 17 | IT has long been thought that conditions at the boundary between the core and mantle influence the Earth 's magnetic field , but the supporting evidence is rather indirect . |
| 18 | It has been thought that Freud was assuming that there can be inheritance of acquired characteristics , an idea shown to be fallacious in modern biology . |
| 19 | I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical . |
| 20 | In the past it has been thought that the fault was greed , but this is too simple a view . |
| 21 | It might have been thought that the massive level of population decline experienced by Britain 's cities since the 1960s , principally affecting their inner areas as it did , would have helped to reduce these problems . |
| 22 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 23 | It had indeed been thought that the climate was too severe for wheat to grow further north , but the richness of the soil there , the abundance of river and lake water , and the intensity of the short summer soon exploded this theory . |
| 24 | It might have been thought that the arrival of so many neutral countries would render any Common Security policy impossible , but the Community institutions are alert to this ‘ danger ’ , and have stated that they will be rigorous in their application of the acquis to new members . |
| 25 | Although from her upbringing it might have been thought that ‘ visiting the sick ’ would be a part of her daily life she had hardly ever — thanks to the Welfare State — had to perform this duty , and then only with her mother or father . |
| 26 | It had hitherto been thought that the effects of such emissions would be more localized . |
| 27 | It has been thought that damage of the tight junctions is morphologically represented by focal discontinuities and veriability in the numbers of tight junctional strands . |
| 28 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 29 | It has been thought that caeruloplasmin lacks para-phenylenediamine-oxidase activity because of loss of copper binding ability . |
| 30 | It had been thought that only the penalty was prescribed by statute , just as the penalty for murder is laid down by Parliament . |