Example sentences of "you would think that " in BNC.
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1 | They want to be slim of course , yet after months or years of dieting failure you would think that it was time to stop trying . |
2 | YOU would think that none of the main party leaders would forget today , but past experience suggests otherwise . |
3 | You would think that a macabre form of nepotism had recruited hundreds of Count Dracula 's descendants into the higher reaches of the Civil Service . |
4 | You would think that the ‘ dummy head microphone ’ for ‘ binaural ’ reproduction — stereo sound for headphone listening — would give totally faithful stereo reproduction as a matter of principle . |
5 | Even in Yorkshire , where you would think that watching all those frisky animals might have some sort of knock-on ( or knock-up ) effect , the people only manage 67 times — which makes them the lowest in the league table . |
6 | To listen to the sanctimonious critics in the ‘ serious ’ papers , on TV and , particularly , in Parliament , you would think that the Press is nothing but a quagmire of evil . |
7 | You would think that most reasonable people would not choose to provoke conflict . |
8 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
9 | You would think that the law is clear on this area . |
10 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
11 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
12 | The amount of dis-information about the compatibility between PCs and Macintoshes is really quite staggering , on the face of it you would think that they were unable to speak at all . |
13 | You would think that they were — thankfully — drawing to a close , and then they would burst off again for another hour and you found yourself wishing they would just shut up . |
14 | Erm I , I just get this feeling , you know one would expect that year eleven is a reasonable way of working out what the , the sort of workload is , and you would think that special needs would actually be something that really related quite nicely |
15 | You would think that somebody else had been in control of our public finances for the past fourteen years . ’ |
16 | The men collect it and know that of the children doing it , you would think that they 'd have noticed over the years , that at the end of each month it says , on the readers ' list it says children and I think that |
17 | You would think that when she was n't coming she would have got some word round . ’ |
18 | You would think that Ipswich came to United to be happy going home losing only 2–0 . |
19 | Yeah I just it just seems to me such a complete and utter waste of of , his time primarily for fifteen , I mean this being identified a year earlier which we reckon it was you would think that even given all the red tape and everything else |