Example sentences of "think [that] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse must prick its ears so that it looks ‘ happy ’ : it must not be relaxed and content with its ears backwards , either listening or resting , or else everyone will think that it is ‘ sour ’ . |
| 2 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 3 | Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together . |
| 4 | You may well think that it is a dead-end and therefore dig down towards it . |
| 5 | Because very young children have this inherent feeling that their parents can do no wrong , should one or other of those adults disappear from the scene for any reason , the child will always think that it is his fault . |
| 6 | Another might think that it is a failure to respond to rewards , in which drug treatments that make animals insensitive to reinforcement would be the best model . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't think that it is all easy there either . |
| 8 | Because these were not casual , throw-away remarks , but a sustained celebration of youthfulness which has now become virtually unthinkable within the thickening twilight of liberal education : This kind of exhilaration has gone out of writings on the youth question , and some people will think that it is no bad thing . |
| 9 | Do you think that it is a good policy ? |
| 10 | Whether one accepts that view or not — and I do not think that it is valid in its simple form ( see Fine and Harris ( 1985 ) ) — it is a powerful one ; in that context , the fact that the proportion of foreign assets in UK pension funds ' total investments has risen is a mark of the power that the post-1979 boom in the City 's foreign investment has had . |
| 11 | I do not think that it is fanciful to suggest that public confidence in the administration of justice is undermined by such assertions from a powerful interest group . |
| 12 | Now , I do not seek to defend the conduct of the Sun , but I do think that it is at best messy and may also be dangerous to use the common law to outflank the Act . |
| 13 | I do not think that it is necessary to refer to all of those provisions because they really do not take the matter any further . |
| 14 | And do n't think that it is n't a temptation . |
| 15 | If one decides to give away £5m to encourage the arts , I do not think that it is a very sensible way to give it to my noble friend Lord Archer , who is a very rich man already , and who gets £6,000 a year out of the pockets of taxpayers who are very much poorer than he is . ’ |
| 16 | You may think that it is good to produce a neat , legible and carefully presented essay . |
| 17 | Nor do I think that it is necessary at this stage . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | The hon. Lady persists — I do not think that it is because she does not understand — in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I do not think that it is right for the hon. Lady to knock the national health service in that way . |
| 22 | Does not the Minister think that it is time to ensure that that Bill is put on the statute book to safeguard what Churchill once described as the greatest of British institutions ? |
| 23 | I do not think that it is a matter for discussion at the special Security Council meeting next week ; it is certainly a matter which remains on our agenda . |
| 24 | Does the Minister think that it is satisfactory for the people of Teesside to be faced with an application for a power station , another for a gas plant for the power station , and a separate application for the overhead line ? |
| 25 | I do not think that it is wisdom that is required but if I can do anything , I will . |
| 26 | I do not think that it is necessary to provide any more parliamentary time for that . |
| 27 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so . |
| 28 | I do not think that it is possible to change that definition . |
| 29 | That is an interesting literary distinction , but I do not think that it is much more than that . |
| 30 | However one designs the procedure — whether a parliamentary procedure or a public inquiry — the majority of poeple will think that it is unfair that it is being forced or inflicted on them . |