Example sentences of "would have [verb] possible " in BNC.

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1 Alyssia glanced up at him , disliking him even more than she would have imagined possible .
2 While all went well she could maintain a fine independence , but when the order threatened to change , she was more affected than she would have believed possible .
3 Raynor , more closely attuned to her now than he would have believed possible , felt the strength and the sudden arrogance and the automatic shouldering of a burden , and knew that it was this quality , this mastery , that set her so much apart .
4 ‘ You 've wasted your time , Roman , ’ he said with more resolution than Claudia would have believed possible .
5 Much laughter and badinage arose out of trying to outdo each other , block each other 's moves , and the evening passed more swiftly than she would have believed possible .
6 Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness .
7 Leonora settled down to her breakfast in a better frame of mind than she would have believed possible the day before .
8 Lindsell feels that much progress has been made in less than two years — more , he admits , than he would have dreamt possible at the outset .
9 German young people recently have shown a more revolutionary and radical sort of behaviour than one would have dreamt possible in the old Germany , but in this morning 's paper I read of the results of erm a public opinion poll recently conducted by the German government about neo-nazism in Germany , showing what seems to be a rather alarming quantity of surviving interest in sympathy for old nazism .
10 Sarah Shannon is the constant centrepoint amidst all these shenanigans : it 's her hip-swinging harmonies on the admirably tuneful likes of ‘ My Forgotten Favourite ’ that have incurred more comparisons with the Valentine 's school of ethereality than even Lush would have considered possible .
11 Demaine thinks that LOGO holds the promise of giving children access to advanced concepts at a far earlier stage than Piaget would have thought possible .
12 In a rage of despair , Nicholas flung open the doors to the street and he was there , running towards him , and the clamour he had heard was real , and louder than he would have thought possible .
13 Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel .
14 The humble footbed has seen more changes than anyone would have thought possible in 1981 , when it was first used in the K-SB3s .
15 He was more ill at ease than Constance would have thought possible .
16 It is clear that , despite the clamour for his resignation , Mr Lamont is hoping to stay at the Treasury for longer than most pundits would have thought possible last year .
17 This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible .
18 They had drifted much farther than I would have thought possible .
19 Out of bed , it was colder than she would have thought possible , the temperature of Russia when nights are coldest there .
20 He still had n't said anything to her bald accusation , and suddenly she needed his reply more than she would have thought possible .
21 He recovered far more quickly than she would have thought possible for such a big man , but the drag on her arm nearly pulled it out of its socket .
22 It finally bit me , twisting its neck more than I would have thought possible and catching my right index finger right on the knuckle .
23 Her grandfather 's death had affected her more than she would have thought possible .
24 Sophie said , ‘ The word seems to have gone round faster than I would have thought possible .
25 Yet the substantial reduction in the planned expenditure on distribution suggests that the gains from reorganisation did outweigh the losses , and enabled the Boards to expand the system on a more economical basis than their predecessors would have found possible .
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