Example sentences of "[verb] thought that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You might have thought that no meteor shower , no space dist had ever touched that brilliance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Titford must have thought that a London in which mobs could go on a looting spree in the City was no place to raise her young daughter . |
| 7 | Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 11 | But who would have thought that a humble human could do these calculations ? |
| 12 | He says he would have thought that a programme which attracts such high viewing and media attention would have sought the appropriate legal advice . |
| 13 | You might have thought that the last bastion of resistance to computers would come from the classic craft environment of hand animation . |
| 14 | Who would have thought that the Oakland As , celebrated by Mr Will and thought to be a collection of giants , would have been blown away in the World Series by a bunch of journeymen from Cincinnati ? |
| 15 | One would have thought that the Incas might have invented a llama cart , given other ingenuities that they displayed . |
| 16 | He had brought three British Labour MPs to Derry and may have thought that the opportunity to expose the RUC should not be wasted . |
| 17 | Who would have thought that the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written could be encapsulated in a microchip ? |
| 18 | You 'd have thought that the enormous Ballroom was on fire . |
| 19 | But I suppose in the last resort , they must have thought that the less sophisticated engineering featured here is only likely to attract a specialist audience . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As he left that all-too-familiar graveyard and tramped home through the snow , Charles the Cheesemonger must have thought that the century was drawing to an unpropitious end indeed . |
| 22 | Who would have thought that the pattern would break ? |
| 23 | Who would have thought that the dapper VIC REEVES and the delicate DANNII MINOGUE would shop on the same sartorial street ? |
| 24 | Come to think of it , who would have thought that the expanding , spruced-up pop campaign would start with a band from Holland ? |
| 25 | Who would have thought that the terribly modern Carter would end up having a crack at the Christmas Number One with a song written in the 1950s and once covered by Elvis Presley ? |
| 26 | The builders on the scaffolding outside must have thought that the house contained a pack of feral beasts , groaning at their captivity , their ill-treatment , their lousy food . |
| 27 | To hear these " my dears " being so liberally dispensed you might have thought that the two girls had become bosom friends . |
| 28 | Such was the enthusiasm that you might have thought that the Collector had just sung an aria . |
| 29 | One might have thought that the context makes it clear that horses is to be interpreted as ‘ stallions ’ ; however , such an interpretation is not available for this type of sentence . |
| 30 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |