Example sentences of "it be [adj] think [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's reasonable to think that a two million bite from a fortune of several million is a bearable loss . |
| 2 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's strange to think that pile of tapes is all that 's left of Nicola 's life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Chimpanzees are so like us intellectually and physiologically , it 's absurd to think that we ca n't have some kind of rapport . ’ |
| 5 | It 's nice to think that one is eating the same grapes as Anne Boleyn and Nell Gwyn . ’ |
| 6 | It 's nice to think that the last of the Stuarts might have ended up as Pope . ’ |
| 7 | NOW that the heavens have opened , dry rivers are flowing and our reservoirs are full , it 's comforting to think that summer hosepipe bans will be a thing of the past . |
| 8 | As you watch a buzzard quartering the ground , it 's easy to think that they are very lazy birds . |
| 9 | Erm I forget which discussant it was but it it 's wrong to think that there 's a difference I think between erm me , I was being characteritured as wanting a site specific policy , and Harrogate who were being characteritured as wanting a criteria based policy . |
| 10 | It 's hard to think that these 2 teams are next to each other in the league . |
| 11 | It 's tempting to think that Windows is so carefully organized that you do n't have to understand much about these processes at all . |
| 12 | It 's tempting to think that the killer made his getaway during that fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 13 | it 's tempting to think that he 's using phraseology picked up on a recent voyage on the Star Ship Enterprise . |
| 14 | But it 's incredible to think that such things happened in them days is n't it really ? |
| 15 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 16 | Dyson tried over inside his head : ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning poor old Eddy was talking about Stanley Cunningham 's funeral … |
| 17 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
| 18 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 19 | It seems to me you see that it 's , it 's naive to think that there 's a complete divorce between culture and technology like for instance abortion technology or birth control technology and nature . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's frightening to think that sort of person exists . ’ |
| 21 | I think it 's exciting to think that on the rare occasion we feature a non farming issue , we discover what a group of internationalists our readers are , and how in touch you are with current affairs . |
| 22 | Tides are destroyers and creators of coastlines — nibbling here , building there ; it is odd to think that our coasts are shaped largely by the gravitational energy of the moon . |
| 23 | At a time of fluctuations in world rankings , it is rash to think that the destiny of the famous green jacket is in the hands of only two players , but there is no doubt at all that — as far as Couples is concerned — ‘ the United States expects ’ . |
| 24 | One detective said last night : ‘ It is nice to think that some happiness has come out of this . |
| 25 | It is unreasonable to think that a manufacturer would be responsible for a product more than three years after manufacture . |
| 26 | It is ironic to think that the Opéra-Bastille has become popular at last with precisely the thing which it was conceived to counter : the superstar ! |
| 27 | We laugh about it now , but it is sobering to think that thousands of men , either too old or too young for the Services , should have gone quite voluntarily , many nights a week , to drill and to manoeuvre , seriously believing that they might have to encounter an invading army . |
| 28 | It is absurd to think that the principle of pooling sovereignty is something new or difficult to accept . |
| 29 | And it is absurd to think that the painters of the Section d'Or and others , scattered through the Salon d'Automne , share any concern other than that of reacting against the sloppiness of Impressionism . |
| 30 | It is strange to think that these two extraordinary symphonies came from the composer of the student-exercise Piano Quartet movement which has been recorded by the Alpe Adria Ensemble . |