Example sentences of "think that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Christians who belong to the sort of council of churches where passionate debates take place about atomic war , South Africa , police brutality , racism and urban decay may think that they at least are closer to the real action . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you think that something like this might be the answer for Jennifer — and for your parents ? ’ |
| 3 | Er er I d I do n't think that we as a panel are necessarily going to ever and and and it may not be our role in fact to do so , to come to a judgement on it , but I would have thought as a matter of common sense , and common agreement , that there should be some er way in which the various parties would come together on the basic demographic statistics and would certainly accept that certain basic projections should be used i in looking forward . |
| 4 | Councillor do you think that you as the chairman of the citizens ' charter defunct working party of the citizens ' charter where it was generally agreed that whenever possible letters should be replied to , or at least acknowledged , within five to ten working days . |
| 5 | I did think that someone outside that house was using assassins , professional killers , but that would be too dangerous . |
| 6 | ‘ But I do think that someone of authority should go into the forest and approach the Tree Spirits . ’ |
| 7 | YOU would think that none of the main party leaders would forget today , but past experience suggests otherwise . |
| 8 | He did not think that anyone at St Basil 's had even noticed him so far . |
| 9 | So I just do n't think that lots of money will give you anything other than an empty wallet and a sound that 's already there . |
| 10 | Grant and the rest , however , believe the fans should know how the board feels about Celtic 's crisis , but it is thought that no-one on the board wants Brady 's resignation . |
| 11 | It is thought that none of the selection of vintage aircraft sold , the Stearman , for example , reaching £30,000 against a reasonably realistic estimate of £35–38,000 . |
| 12 | I would have thought that anyone with the most elementary grasp of relative importance would have decided that priority should be accorded to a female child done to death by some scoundrel . ’ |
| 13 | Boy never thought that anything on the television was ever about anything except his own life . |
| 14 | In 1767 Jonas Hanway thought that one in thirteen of London 's population was a domestic servant . |
| 15 | Snodgrass , who had studied more sketches and impressions of the lost castles and palaces of Earth than he could remember , said he thought that nothing like Tara had ever existed anywhere in any world . |
| 16 | He thought that none of those he had spoken to could have told him anything of the killing . |
| 17 | regardless of what they want to do , the rest of the organization , I think that we as an organization should do something like that . |
| 18 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 19 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 20 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 21 | They know the grandchildren will grow up with a mixture of character traits collected from way back , on both sides of the family , but they like to think that something of theirs , some good trait or talent , will be packed somewhere in their grandchildren 's psychological ‘ baggage ’ when they set out on their journey into adult life . |
| 22 | I never got good enough ( or brave enough ) to test her advice out , but , being by inclination an optimist , I would like to think that something of the same logic would apply to the National Curriculum and its tests . |
| 23 | It was strange to think that none of them knew that Arabella was dead ; her absence made no difference to their lives . |
| 24 | It does n't seem plausible to think that anyone with any knowledge of the difficulties which would have been presented by trying to recover and rebuild enough aircraft to produce the film would have seriously considered the idea . |
| 25 | ‘ It is wonderful to think that someone in a government ministry may be paying attention and trying to help us , ’ he said last night . |
| 26 | It 's so peculiar to think that you plus wife equals a new human being . |
| 27 | I could not help thinking that something beside mere chance was at work here , showing me the way . |