Example sentences of "they [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission accept that both the 1968 and 1978 Theft Acts and the case law on them are thought by some to be " seriously defective " , but the draft Code was a restatement not a Code to reform the substance of the law . |
| 2 | I think all this campaign is not because they are thinking about the interests of poor people , that 's a lie . |
| 3 | So you run the risk that they are thinking about one thing while you are pursuing another ; |
| 4 | Here is some information about the financial questions which many people ask when they are thinking about a move into a residential or nursing home . |
| 5 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 6 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 7 | Perhaps they are thinking of the soaraway end of the market ? |
| 8 | Perhaps they are thinking of the soaraway end of the market ? |
| 9 | Their natural opponents , who had often been lashed for undue subservience to clerical domination , joyfully pointed this out : ‘ It is one of the ironies on English political life ’ declared The Tablet , the leading Roman Catholic weekly , ‘ that people who , when they are thinking of lies , are never tired of denouncing the influence of the clergy in politics , at the same time are quite ready to give up their political consciences to the keeping of their ministers . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ This is because , from the public 's point of view , if a company they are thinking of employing by Safe-Buy UK , they know they can proceed with a home improvement with extra reassurance and avoid things going badly or expensively wrong . |
| 11 | Families are invited to spend a weekend in a showhome identical to the one they are thinking of buying , so they can get an insight into the location and the layout . |
| 12 | because they are thinking of bed … |
| 13 | Members would , it is felt , like to browse over books they are thinking of buying as without being able to see the items they may not want to buy . |
| 14 | The way they phrase the question reveals the fact they are thinking in the old materialistic and nationalistic terms . |
| 15 | They are thought to be from south China . |
| 16 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 17 | The C2s ( skilled workers to lower management , broadly ) are courted , flattered and endlessly solicited for their opinions , since they are thought to be the deciding factor in the election . |
| 18 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 19 | They are thought to date back to 3,500 BC , which suggests that the technological achievements of the Mesopotamians have been grossly underrated . |
| 20 | Although no one is completely sure how , they are thought to be hereditary . |
| 21 | They are thought to be the Devil 's companions and to tempt men to death or illness by offering them bewitched foods . |
| 22 | They are thought to be under the aegis of the Soviet military . |
| 23 | Often the attraction of broader approaches like counselling is that they are thought to be able to tackle many massive problems at the same time . |
| 24 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 25 | Therefore , they are thought to be important regulators of brain development ( reviewed in [ 12 ] ) . |
| 26 | The matter is further complicated by the fact that the disclosure letter will almost always say the disclosures are made by reference to the warranty to which they are thought to be most applicable , but they also apply to all warranties . |
| 27 | They are thought to be the victims of fishermen , who blame them for meagre fish stocks . |
| 28 | They are thought to be the youngest children in modern times to face charges of murder . |
| 29 | In the lay person 's view , and in the view of some professional linguists , the norms of language are associated with notions of standardization and ‘ correctness ’ or with hierarchical dimensions of social structure ( or all of these ) , and they are usually felt to be institutional : that is , they are thought of as being prescribed by authority through the writing system , the educational system and other agencies ( for a relevant discussion , see J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 30 | Victorian market towns tend to be regarded — if they are thought of at all — as slumbering relics of the past , places of little account that had been relegated to minor status by the new industrial cities . |