Example sentences of "to think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 2 | It is hard to think that the novelist intended the reader to find this even more gnomic and exasperating than the colleague seems to find it . |
| 3 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 4 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 5 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 6 | It seems reasonable to think that The Facts is imagined , and that it could promote a benevolent view of the literal or faithful — as opposed to the fantastically transgressive — imagination , which may or may not , in any given case , be directly concerned with the facts of the author 's own life . |
| 7 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 8 | I would like to think that the problem of entry into Equity could be resolved in the future — difficult as it is . |
| 9 | To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us , she says . |
| 10 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 11 | He seemed to think that a policeman 's lot should be to deal in drama . |
| 12 | On the contrary , he seemed to think that popular art and literature were themselves full of devices which experimentalists were trying to recapture , as if ‘ intellectual montage ’ or ‘ dream time ’ were implicit in folk fables , riddles and jokes . |
| 13 | There is often a tendency for pilots to think that , because they are solo and have managed a few soaring flights and their Bronze C , they should be allowed to go cross-country . |
| 14 | This led me to think that some students may equate the feeling of low ‘ g ’ with the glider being stalled . |
| 15 | In executing what would be a normal stall recovery , any movement forwards will , or course , increase the pitching , thereby making the sensation more vivid and encouraging the pilot to think that the aircraft is not recovering . |
| 16 | I find it a little horrifying to think that some Commercial pilots flying large numbers of passengers may have had very little exposure to reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 17 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |
| 18 | Yet some writers seem to think that the laws do just that ; and that the quantitative observations encompassed in the laws take us beyond ( subjective ) experience because they are based upon objective measures of physical energy , utilizing scientific instruments . |
| 19 | I 'm against some sorts of professionalization , but it would be silly to think that the university should have nothing to do with any profession . |
| 20 | She was wrong to think that genuine criticism could be severed from evaluation , but right to think that there was no place for such criticism in the academy . |
| 21 | She was wrong to think that genuine criticism could be severed from evaluation , but right to think that there was no place for such criticism in the academy . |
| 22 | Raymond Williams came to think that a splitting of the discipline was increasingly likely , since cultural materialism and radical semiotics were not compatible with the dominant paradigm of literary study : ‘ For these necessarily include the paradigm itself as a matter for analysis , rather than as a governing definition of the object of knowledge . ’ |
| 23 | For reasons which are much more pragmatic than ideological , I have come to think that a separation of Cultural Studies from English , though not easy , would be the least damaging way forward for both parties . |
| 24 | But I incline to think that our grandfathers and grandmothers were in the right of it , and that no one can claim to understand Wordsworth who has not been to Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 25 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
| 26 | It is entirely possible to think that if ‘ literary ’ and ‘ aesthetic ’ are words that go naturally with ‘ American ’ but not with ‘ English ’ , so much the worse for the English . |
| 27 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |
| 28 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 29 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 30 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |