Example sentences of "think it [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may or may not be that he would have thought it necessary for there to be a ‘ natural resemblance ’ ( such as the Vatican Declaration believes to be necessary ) between the male Christ and the male priest . |
| 2 | Snobbish Rufus had not thought it possible for someone like that to live there , but why not , after all ? |
| 3 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
| 4 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 5 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 6 | They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune . |
| 7 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think it suitable for me ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | The public perusing opening hours of some bureaux may think it unreasonable for a bureau to close for lunch . |
| 10 | Would she think it fair for someone to lose their job for pinching her posterior on the Indie escalator ? |
| 11 | I do not think it wrong for a man to open his eyes , look around him and consider that there might be other roads upon which to travel . ’ |
| 12 | In addition , bail may also be denied if the court thinks it necessary for the defendant 's own protection , if there has been insufficient time to enable the court to obtain enough information to reach a decision , or if the defendant has previously failed to answer to bail . |
| 13 | ‘ Think it possible for anyone to add poison to a dish intended for Sir Thomas , Mr Didier ? ’ |
| 14 | If you think it worthwhile for your business use a good solicitor to have your clauses drafted , advise your customers of your intentions and try it . |
| 15 | If we think it necessary for you to seek further specialist guidance , we will be pleased to arrange a meeting(s) with other Midland Group experts . |
| 16 | Although possible , we think it unlikely for this to have occurred for risk factors such as smoking and parity . |
| 17 | While Mr Fallon will probably not have had the chance to read the report , we think it unwise for him to dismiss it out of hand . |
| 18 | As Charlwood Lawton put it in 1693 , there were Jacobites for reformations , " That think it Lawful for Kings , and their Parliaments , to limit and explain the Nature of Prerogatives " , and he went on to advocate certain legal reforms , reform of the militia , the frequent sitting of Parliament ( Lawton was writing before the passage of the 1694 Triennial Act ) , and Parliament 's right to scrutinise and punish ministers of state . |
| 19 | A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally . |