Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Druids may have calculated that the difficult terrain would have delayed the advance . |
| 2 | Parliament may have intended that the English court could and should bring before it , and make orders against , a person who has no connection whatever with England save that he entered into a transaction , maybe abroad and in respect of foreign property and in the utmost good faith , with a person who is subject to the insolvency jurisdiction of the English court . |
| 3 | But I would have expected that the whole thing would have to be operated by , somebody who was qualified . |
| 4 | Though they might have forgotten that the following day would be the sixth anniversary of their engagement , he with his prodigious memory had not . |
| 5 | Who indeed could have forecast that the Provincial sector would be announcing such an improvement in their financial situation resulting from rapid but targeted investment in new trains , with the prime objective of cost reduction ? |
| 6 | The question was whether the reasonable business man would have considered that the new value was extended at the same time as the execution of the charge and not whether the new value was extended because of the existence of the charge . |
| 7 | The Cabinet Secretary would have said that the prime minister had issued a specific directive that no intelligence operations were to be mounted against the Russians during their visit . |
| 8 | However , you may have noticed that the new season lamb is on offer almost throughout the year . |
| 9 | Mrs Coleridge may have felt that the Blue Coat School would best prepare her son for the clerical career John Coleridge had wished him to follow . |
| 10 | It may be that those responsible for the well-known picture of the so-called ‘ Dancing Sorcerer ’ ( on the wall of one of the innermost recesses of the Trois Frères cave in the department of Arriège in France ) , which represents a man in the skin of an animal and wearing the antlers of a stag , may have felt that the actual performance of the dance was insufficient , since they were concerned about the conservation of the magical efficacy of the dance after it had ended . |
| 11 | A slightly more critical eye might have felt that the very fact that they were publicly proclaiming the existence of such a rumour could not advantage Profumo in any way and might easily damage him . |
| 12 | He would presumably have argued that the conservative variant of the normativist style lies in the theological stage of society , and the liberal variant is rooted in the metaphysical stage . |
| 13 | Many of those who witnessed the execution of Charles I and the founding of an English republic in 1649 must have anticipated that the foreign policy of the new staunchly Protestant state would have a strong religious orientation . |
| 14 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I should have thought that the present requirement of the whole civilised world is relatively simple . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You 'd have thought that the enormous Ballroom was on fire . |
| 19 | But for 15 minutes before the curtains went up the audience must have thought that the obnoxious Sheriff of Nottigham was sitting immediately behind me … |
| 20 | I should have thought that the hon. Lady would now recognise that the description that I gave was entirely apposite . |
| 21 | I should have thought that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury , as much as my hon. Friends , would strongly support that . |
| 22 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would apologise to the House for the last Labour Government 's appalling record . |
| 23 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman , who cares about these things , would welcome that . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Alternatively , Organisational processes such as " value analysis " may have shown that the specific requirement can be met in a different way , this alternative being either cheaper or offering better value for money . |
| 26 | A less selective article might have noted that the main thrust of the advice for harp seats is that pup production in 1977–1980 was likely to have been longer than the later 1960s pup production . |
| 27 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 28 | If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof . |
| 29 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
| 30 | I should have hoped that the hon. Gentleman would respect the principle of academic autonomy . |