Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] think that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For long it was thought that wet spraying turned the buds to a wet mash , and therefore dusting each individual bud was necessary . |
| 2 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 3 | Hitherto it was thought that natural selection is standing still , or merely weeding out the more harmful defects . |
| 4 | It 's just I 'm thinking that you 've got your bridal magazine which you 're obviously going into and you 're going to your bridal sales . |
| 5 | Thus it is thought that the fact that some human beings are of the opposite sex to Christ is not of importance . |
| 6 | Possibly it was thought that for this reason , amongst others , she would not be suspect by our controls . |
| 7 | Originally it was thought that this question might provide some useful insights into possible cover to allow people to attend courses . |
| 8 | Originally it was thought that the bombings might be drug-related , but Vance had been involved in a case against the Ku Klux Klan in 1985 and Robinson had recently represented a black plaintiff in a school desegregation case . |
| 9 | Ten years ago it was thought that something positive should be done to encourage and thank our faithful and hardworking Secretaries and Promoters . |
| 10 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 11 | But , even then I was thinking that we might , in actual fact , start looking at attainment target one and certainly fill in , you know |
| 12 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 13 | The mathematics for a spinning black hole are rather different from those of a stationary one , and initially it was thought that they would allow the possibility of a suitably durable craft surviving the voyage without necessarily being destroyed . |
| 14 | Initially it was thought that there was an impairment in memory for visual stimuli but work carried out in the 1970s largely dispelled this notion . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe he is thinking that today he will loose his freedom . |
| 16 | Previously it was thought that all coins were struck from separate dies , but the increasing sophistication of photography in the late nineteenth century enabled scholars to appreciate that die links could be found , and the first full die study of the coins of a Greek city was published in 1906 . |