Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal for monitoring by silent , closed-circuit television cameras , he said , would be implemented as recommended , but the one to allow a prisoner the right to consult a solicitor every forty-eight hours would be curtailed to the extent that ‘ where it is thought necessary ’ a senior police officer would be present . |
| 2 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 3 | Although it is thought that translation of a polymer chain proceeds by means of a series of segmental jumps involving short kinetic units , which may each consist of between 15 and 30 chain atoms , the complete movement of a chain can not remain unaffected by the surrounding chains . |
| 4 | Although it is thought it contained only a small amount of money , there is concern about confidential documents which also went missing . |
| 5 | Now at least one top 10 society says privately that it is thinking seriously of becoming a plc in a few years . |
| 6 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 7 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 8 | ‘ So it is thought , Sei-sen . |
| 9 | The only useable machinery left in the workshops has been wrecked … and it 's thought industrial saboteurs could be to blame . |
| 10 | The kennels went on the market for £80,000 and it 's thought a builder was interested in developing the site . |
| 11 | He 'd managed to walk out of a locked ward at the Fairmile psychiatric hospital , and it 's thought he threw himself under an express train . |
| 12 | The warning light came on , and it 's thought that was the point at which the pilot radioed for help . |
| 13 | The warning light came on , and it 's thought that was the point at which the pilot radioed for help . |
| 14 | But she 's disappeared from her refugee camp , and it 's thought she could be in Germany . |
| 15 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 16 | ‘ The terrorist group included a youth of about fifteen with bleached hair and it is thought that glimpses of this boy were used skilfully to support the terrorists ' claims . |
| 17 | Rules and regulations are firmly in place , however , and it is thought to be extremely unlikely that Mrs Marcos would make any serious attempt to return the body . |
| 18 | It is now known that many plants grow at temperatures as low as 0°C , albeit slowly , and it is thought that higher temperatures are more important in the earlier half of the year . |
| 19 | The incident took place at around 4.30 on Thursday afternoon , and it is thought that one of the men could be middle aged and the other younger . |
| 20 | It seems that anxious people condition most easily and it is thought that irrational fears are established in this way . |
| 21 | Controlled by a single gene , the deficiency is usually harmless , but certain drugs for malaria or a type of bean can cause those without the proper gene to suffer acute anaemia , and it is thought that some chemical might do the same . |
| 22 | The bacteriophage infects the bacterium , Staphylococcus , by taking over its cell chemistry and it is thought to cause the production of a toxic substance which is poisonous to human cells . |
| 23 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 24 | The company is reviewing its advertising account , held by Euro RSCG 's below-the-line subsidiary KLP , and it is thought new work may attempt to recruit new cardholders . |
| 25 | Some sort of a school had existed before , possibly from 1680 , and it is thought to be part of the reading room where the WI now meet . |
| 26 | They attack it with wedges and iron hammers ; and it is thought to be the hardest thing that exists , except the greed of gold which is the most stubborn of all things . ’ |
| 27 | And it is thought the boss did a ‘ Paddy Ashdown ’ by coming clean before the affair was revealed in a newspaper . |
| 28 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 29 | In the longer term , spectrum has been identified in the band 4.4GHz to 5.03GHz and it is thought that military tactical requirements and outside broadcast and news gathering applications ‘ could be compatible in such situations ’ . |
| 30 | They are therefore sometimes known collectively as ostracoderms ( bony-skinned ) and it is thought that one or other ostracoderm groups gave rise to the gnathostomes . |