Example sentences of "think [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously a client will not discuss intimate affairs with someone whom he believes to know nothing of such matters , or whom he thinks may condemn or be shocked by his problems . |
| 2 | His godparents came from his mother 's side of the family , her brother Errol and Florence Court Treatt , who Grace thinks may have been Major Court Treatt 's mother ; also a friend , a government official named John Keith , after whom John was named . |
| 3 | His mother had been married once before in a stunning white dress , which Karl thinks may have been made by Doucet — one of the great early twentieth-century designers . |
| 4 | So this is what the great glass eye thinks may have been leaked to our enemies — an inquiry into the nature of happiness . |
| 5 | The problem is that the law makes its intelligent decision as to what it thinks should happen which may accord with your wishes . |
| 6 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 7 | Now what kind of words do you think should go on a front page if you 're dealing |
| 8 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 9 | But who do you think should pay to look after your children |
| 10 | the first one I do n't think should come under this grant , I think it should go to enhancement . |
| 11 | I mean , who who do you think should get squeezed ? |
| 12 | Listen carefully to what he has to say about your hair , and the sort of style he thinks might look good on you . |
| 13 | I do n't think 'll stay , myself . |
| 14 | So who do you think 'll get in ? |
| 15 | What do you think might have done it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What did you think might happen ? ’ |
| 17 | What other things do you hope or do you think might happen shall we say ? |
| 18 | Right , what do you think might happen if a baby 's getting chilled , what signs do you think might you notice ? |
| 19 | A sponge , it says sponge on there , what do you think might happen when you put your sponge in ? |
| 20 | What factors do you think could change their reliance on such services ? |
| 21 | Gallup first asked in 1964 and then in all its 1992 surveys : ‘ With Britain in economic difficulties , which party do you think could handle the problem best — Conservatives or Labour ? |
| 22 | And nothing she could think could raise her arm |
| 23 | What other things do you think could have helped you ? |
| 24 | I 'll give you one story that you may not think could have been cut down , but , the headline read , ‘ War Declared ’ . |
| 25 | The agreements also allow the EC to impose ‘ safeguard measures ’ — restrictions — on surges of imports it thinks could damage local producers . |
| 26 | The other reservation concerns the long-term effects of adoption , which it is thought may damage personality and identity . |
| 27 | A few moments thought should reveal that the price needs to be adjusted downwards . |
| 28 | Another concentrated more on non-intellectual factors — such as personality traits — which it was thought might distinguish the highly creative individual . |
| 29 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 30 | The doctor , when he had first seen her , had awakened a creature deep within him that he had thought would sleep for ever — until the day he died . |