Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] thought that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I should have thought that the right hon. Member for Chingford , who believes , apparently , in freedom of choice in all matters , would have supported the right of freedom to choose independent legal advice . |
| 3 | I should have thought that the present requirement of the whole civilised world is relatively simple . |
| 4 | I should have thought that the hon. Lady would now recognise that the description that I gave was entirely apposite . |
| 5 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would apologise to the House for the last Labour Government 's appalling record . |
| 6 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman , who cares about these things , would welcome that . |
| 7 | I should have thought that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury , as much as my hon. Friends , would strongly support that . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | I might have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would draw the attention of the House to his views on the two new clauses , but I do not recall him even mentioning them . |
| 10 | To hear these " my dears " being so liberally dispensed you might have thought that the two girls had become bosom friends . |
| 11 | You might have thought that the last bastion of resistance to computers would come from the classic craft environment of hand animation . |
| 12 | You 'd have thought that the enormous Ballroom was on fire . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But who would have thought that a humble human could do these calculations ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Who would have thought that the dapper VIC REEVES and the delicate DANNII MINOGUE would shop on the same sartorial street ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Come to think of it , who would have thought that the expanding , spruced-up pop campaign would start with a band from Holland ? |