Example sentences of "think that [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And those who have made a career out of making fun of Maxwell may think that they can continue to do so ; but it 's just not funny anymore ( allegedly ) . |
| 2 | Why do men think that they can use women and come out of it unscathed ? ’ |
| 3 | I do think that one can put one 's ideas over rather more forcefully and precisely when one 's present in the flesh , with all one 's conversational resources to hand . ’ |
| 4 | The comparison between Matisse and Picasso is true and present and I do not think that one can look at Matisse without thinking of Picasso and vice versa . |
| 5 | I do not think that we can achieve more in this forum . |
| 6 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 7 | Now you see I do n't think that you can say I 'm all against national war but , but you 're in favour of a violent revolution |
| 8 | I really ca n't think that you can claim those as savings . |
| 9 | Do not think that you can learn by sitting back with your feet up reading a book . |
| 10 | Oh yeah I think so , I do n't think that I can make anything of it , I 'll take that box to school because they might be doing a |
| 11 | I do n't think that I can send you more than four or five canvases at a time because of the cold . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , I do not think that I can help you with this particular line of enquiry . |
| 13 | Erm , well it 's just a seminar about planning at the moment , I shall get further information about it on nearer the time , erm , a change in who would pay our , or get our VAT repayment claim from , does n't change an address basically , and er a request from Sam Stewart , whose erm a Counc , er a County Councillor , er something which I really ca n't actually erm help him with , he wants to know the whole of our Parish Council meetings date for nineteen ninety four , but I mean this is something we fix as we go along , so I really do n't think that I can help him by that , and I 'm sending him that , erm |
| 14 | Oh I do n't think that I can help and just say and I yen I went to get one in |
| 15 | I , I , I do n't hardly think that I can remember blowing a whistle . |
| 16 | Anyone who thinks that he can improve on the commitment and effort of British Coal managers reveals how little he knows about the coal industry and coal mining . |
| 17 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 18 | This gentleman thinks that he can bring up a child |
| 19 | I do not know whether he does not understand the measure or whether he thinks that he can discredit the idea by associating it with the poll tax . |
| 20 | he thinks that he can buy I could buy this standing space because I 'm a businessman and I 've got lots of money . |
| 21 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 22 | A company often thinks that it can let space for a short term — say two or three years — and then move back in once the business climate has improved . |
| 23 | I thought that you can have one of those that you roll side by side |
| 24 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 25 | We think that we can see a reclining figure , but in reality there are only parts . |
| 26 | But I think that we can persuade them that it is something that Parliament has said a planning application that deals with local issues can be determined locally . |
| 27 | I 'm making this point because I think that we can get really to verify |
| 28 | But if we there again if we see somebody that 's being mugged , and we think that we can assist , or we can deal with it , then we will , you have to take every situation as it comes . |
| 29 | They ask you to go out with them , they buy you a drink or two — and then they think that they can do what they want ! |
| 30 | the people think that they can do it undisturbed . |