Example sentences of "would [verb] that a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 .
3 They they would think that a man er starting at eight in the morning will do as many and as quick for ten o'clock , as a man starting at night , or at six o'clock in the morning , or the afternoon shift .
4 Had he been one , he would know that a large part of the duties of anyone holding my office is to meet business men and their representatives to discuss their problems and concerns .
5 Analysis of early fourteenth-century letter-collections would show that a form of French , perfectly comprehensible to both Frenchmen and Englishmen alike , was the normal language of secular correspondence .
6 This would limit the possible effects of Olugboja , since it would ensure that a defendant could not be guilty of rape where he perpetrated a fraud of any other description .
7 ‘ None of the individual specifications appears to embrace the whole of the mechanical conditions to be dealt with , but there were many good points contained in the specifications of Messrs. Glover and Messrs. Gwynne ; and it would appear that a combination of certain facets of these two schemes would produce a highly satisfactory machine .
8 There is no individual specification which appears to embrace the whole of the mechanical conditions to be dealt with ; but there are many good points contained in the specification of Messrs. Glover and Messrs. Gwynne ; and it would appear that a combination of certain parts of these two schemes would produce a highly satisfactory machine .
9 In view of this , it would appear that a corporate finance arm of a conglomerate , acting as an underwriter to a client , would fulfil this test if , in the course of its relationship with that client , it acquired confidential information such as earnings figures , future corporate plans , new innovations , or inventions , and would , as a result , owe an obligation of confidence to that client .
10 It would appear that a large part of the answer was assumed by him from the outset and without argument .
11 If fire fighting is to be undertaken in such circumstances it would appear that a range of pre-planned , pre-positioned equipment is necessary , capable of being independently controlled and deployed .
12 He writes : ‘ It would appear that a small number of club chairmen , or in the case of Arsenal their vice-chairman , believe they have some God-given right to an advantage — an unfair advantage — over their fellow members .
13 In the information given regarding projects it would appear that a Mother and Toddler Group would fall into Section 3 , Priority 1 . ’
14 At this point it would appear that a consultant 's job is now over , but in fact he should co-ordinate with the contractors , and stand by until the equipment is fully installed and be present at the opening of the facility for a number of days in order to iron out any problems that may arise immediately after opening .
15 Protected Party Party Relying On Clause Class of Goods Non-consumer Business Commercial Business Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Non-consumer Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Business Business Consumer/Commercial Prima facie , it would appear that a court would be likely to find exclusions more reasonable as one proceeds down the matrix , and exclusions relating to consumer goods more reasonable than those relating to commercial goods .
16 From this it would appear that a party can be considered to have waived his rights without full knowledge of the facts .
17 Hourcade wrote of the Futurist exhibition in the Revue de France : ‘ One would swear that a clever pupil of the Cubists and an even cleverer pupil of Signac had painted the works in collaboration …
18 We would give that a slightly different gloss : multiculturalism , certainly as it was translated into educational and political practice , often conflated the question of culture with a particular understanding of ethnicity .
19 In other words , if the assumption of rational expectations is correct we would expect that a regression of the two equations in equation ( 3.43 ) , using a large sample of observations , would produce estimates of γ and δ approximately equal to the expressions on the right-hand sides of equations ( 3.48a ) and ( 3.48b ) evaluated at the estimates of α and β .
20 Who would suspect that a pious nun like myself could be guilty of such an act ? ’
21 Were it otherwise , it would follow that a man who assaults his wife purely in order to enforce her duty to maintain him , or to care for their children , should be similarly exempt from criminal liability .
22 He added that he hoped Mr Major would understand that a meeting was impossible because he is busy setting up his administration .
23 She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her .
24 So far all the preparations had been made as discreetly as possible , under cover of darkness , but now the moment he most dreaded was approaching , the moment when the sepoys would realize that a retreat was taking place and would launch their attack .
25 It seems unlikely that judicial review would decide that a legitimate expectation of some activity — such as being allowed out of your cell — is an absolute right and must be enforced .
26 No one outside of the wilder sects of the artificial intelligence fraternity would suggest that a device that translated morse into natural language characters on the screen of a computer was releasing the consciousness implicit in morse .
27 I would suggest that a 1 per cent solution of povidone iodine might be a safer alternative .
28 This would suggest that a spontaneous decline in the incidence of attempted suicide might be expected as greater numbers of people come into personal contact with someone who has attempted suicide and public attitudes towards attempters become more negative .
29 The practice of preparing materials for mass appeal would suggest that a degree of co-operation and co-ordination is appropriate , and instead of one or two libraries putting effort and resources into local campaigns a national approach to the problem of public library promotion should be taken .
30 I would suggest that a more natural and more effective approach would be to reverse this traditional pedagogic dependency , begin with lexical items and show how they need to be grammatically modified to be communicatively effective .
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