Example sentences of "would [vb infin] thought that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You 'd have thought that the enormous Ballroom was on fire .
2 You know you want to know and I would 've thought that the higher the management the more they want to know the implications , the financial of it of any plan which you 're going into .
3 I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces .
4 One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth .
5 But who would have thought that a humble human could do these calculations ?
6 I would have thought that a large company like Fender could supply this information with their products as a matter of course , together with technical specifications and notes on the safe usage of this product — after all , I seem to recall several musicians being electrocuted when playing their electric guitars .
7 We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds .
8 Unless you happen to have a racetrack in your back gardens , I would have thought that the sheer frustration of never really being able to stretch a car like this is one of the main drawbacks to owning one .
9 One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output .
10 Who would have thought that the dapper VIC REEVES and the delicate DANNII MINOGUE would shop on the same sartorial street ?
11 Nobody expected anyone to get their leg broken but one would have thought that the top two teams in the country could have contributed more in terms of effort , flair and excitement .
12 You would have thought that the natural reaction of the teacher would have been that we ought to contact the father — better him than the nutty grandmother .
13 Come to think of it , who would have thought that the expanding , spruced-up pop campaign would start with a band from Holland ?
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