Example sentences of "think [that] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given my hon. Friend 's well-known commitment to productivity , efficiency and careful spending of money in the public sector , I am surprised by her suggestion and I do not think that it is tremendously sensible . |
| 2 | And do n't think that it is n't a temptation . |
| 3 | of my households are single-person households — I do not think that it is quite that high — I shall make absolutely certain that every one knows the Labour party 's policy for them . |
| 4 | Does the Minister think that it is now time to implement the proposals in the report ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ to introduce social loans , to take more stringent action against loan sharks who exploit poor people by their extortionate interest rates and to encourage a more responsible lending policy by banks ? |
| 5 | Well I do n't think that it 's primarily being a woman that affected my career . |
| 6 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 7 | So I do n't think that it 's now the logical way forward . |
| 8 | And I do n't think that it 's too far-fetched to assume that person is one and the same ! ’ |
| 9 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 10 | Well do n't you think that it 's really rather improper for you to be doing this ? |
| 11 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 12 | I do not think that it was entirely the question of the ownership of Nigerian oil ; more likely they genuinely believed that the Biafrans had no chance of success . |
| 13 | At , at the back of the Three Crowns where that is now , I do n't know whether if it was a bomb meant for the airport , I ca n't think that it was though it was a bit far away for that . |
| 14 | And she did n't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning . |
| 15 | Do not think , he wrote , biting his lips in concentration , bending low over the page , blinking to keep the sweat out of his eyes , do not think that it was ever far from my mind . |
| 16 | He has not done a lot of opera but thinks that it is just the way things worked out . |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman thinks that it is not , why does not he have the courage to stand up and say so ? |
| 18 | He thinks that it is more important to convince doctors that ‘ teaching ’ is a broad term and covers much of what they do every day and to ensure that they receive adequate training and support to carry it out well . |
| 19 | If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy . |
| 20 | When one thinks that it is so easy to simply discard direct mail , it is more difficult to ignore a telephone call , especially if the message is ‘ personalised ’ . |
| 21 | However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early . |
| 22 | Now Councillor thinks that it was just an accident and people will understand . |
| 23 | He 'd thought that it was just the calendar which had been turned to the correct month , but something else had been changed too . |
| 24 | In view of the technical advance implied it is thought that it was probably he who was the ‘ Mr Showers ’ who was complimented in 1692 for having played in hitherto impossible keys and ‘ with all the softness imaginable ’ ; but at that date the reference might conceivably be to his father or , less probably , his kinsman William . |
| 25 | Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it . |
| 26 | I should have thought that it was much more sensible to make proposals from the start for both a station and a link . |
| 27 | They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us . |
| 28 | More seriously , he thought that it was probably a corrupt version of some such name as Krankovitz or Krankovsky , indicating that one branch of the family had come from eastern Europe . |
| 29 | Luke thought that it was probably a mistake , at this stage , to go on about sonnets . |
| 30 | Rostov thought that it was probably the wrong moment to suggest that the qualities which defined humanity were subjective . |