Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they may be thinking about the unthinkable : independence for their tiny — but vastly more successful — China . |
| 2 | But in passing , as they may be thought to have done , from journalism to fiction , Naipaul 's feelings , and their objects , underwent a change . |
| 3 | In that partnerships depend not just on technical or logistical arrangements but also personal commitment for their success they may be thought to resemble matrimony . |
| 4 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 5 | After being pipped for places in Italia 90 and Euro 92 , they must be thinking ‘ third time lucky ’ . |
| 6 | — when surely they should be thinking instead about the person who has died . |
| 7 | For several years , in the late 1960s and the early 1970s , sociologists seemed to spend as much time and effort arguing about how they should be thinking about and studying the social world as they did in actually doing research . |
| 8 | they should be thinking about it right from the word go . |
| 9 | ‘ It subtly reminds the client that they should be thinking about legal issues on a regular basis , ’ said . |
| 10 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 11 | Imagine with me Chairman if you will the thoughts of someone trapped by some misfortune in the midst of the wreckage of a road traffic accident on the M 1 motorway Southbound between junctions twenty one and twenty that 's at Nutterworth or Northbound between twenty one and twenty two or Westbound on the M 69 they 'll be thinking the fire brigade 'll be here in a minute or two . |
| 12 | I honestly had no idea of what they might be thinking or what to make of it myself . |
| 13 | they might be thinking that we 'll relax , we do n't really know.They could be playing for time.It could be they are seriously re-thinking . |
| 14 | If they had been , even now they would be thinking of the night to come . |
| 15 | communist with the , the Kuomintang I mean , wo would they be of the opinion that revolution should happen , but maybe they , they would be thinking more in terms of an urban revolution or would they be er very similar opinion to the Kuomintang , you know |
| 16 | If they did n't interfere in politics , they would be thought craven . |
| 17 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |
| 18 | Now , they would be thought obscene public perception has changed and understood that animals are sentient beings and that we demean our humanity if we are cruel to them or permit cruelty . |
| 19 | erm It 's eighty minutes , it 's that eighty minutes is a very hard game obviously erm and they will be thinking exactly the same . |
| 20 | They can be thought of as seven tests to be applied . |