Example sentences of "would have think the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought the UK hotelier would have nothing to fear from a European directive , ’ he said . |
| 2 | My 1982 Land Rover Stage I V8 station wagon performs well at low speeds , but when pulling in the gears or at higher speeds , lacks the power I would have thought the V8 should deliver . |
| 3 | Who would have thought the old man could be so clever ? |
| 4 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 5 | Sadly , experience suggests that most doctors would have thought the booklet to be just more advertising for Opren and thrown it straight into their wastepaper basket , unless the representative drew particular attention to the studies in question . |
| 6 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 7 | I would have thought the Russians just about got ahead on a points average with that one . ’ |
| 8 | You would have thought The Woman In Black would n't have stood a ghost of a chance of survival with just two actors , a simple set and some offstage sound effects going for it . |
| 9 | ‘ I would have thought the Royals would have been warned by their security people that on no account should they use mobile phones for sensitive information because they are not secure . |
| 10 | I would have thought the horizon would have been black with converging vessels by this time . ’ |
| 11 | Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ . |
| 12 | I would have thought the normal procedure would be for him to be committed to Preston Crown Court and for the Crown Courts thereafter to sort out the final venue . |
| 13 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 14 | She would have thought the better of him for it as well , Lugh knew he could be sure of that . |
| 15 | Who would have thought the ear-tugging parson to have such grace ? |
| 16 | He just managed to resist adding , ‘ Yours is twenty , and I would have thought the same went for her too . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 18 | Devoid of animation , lacking the divine spirit of life , if he had not been a priest she would have thought the expression petulant , the top lip folded over the lower one in resentment and self-pity . |
| 19 | Erm beyond two thousand and six , I would have thought the strategic guidance would be in locations other than peripheral expansion around the Greater York area , which I would have suggested would would more than likely be to new settlements . |
| 20 | John Wesley was a reluctant convert to open-air preaching — " I would have thought the saving of souls almost a sin , if it had not been done in a church " — but at Bristol in 1739 he followed the example of George Whitefield and " submitted to be more vile , and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation " . |
| 21 | I would have thought the community |
| 22 | I would have thought the labour market conditions are also a vital ingredient if profitability is to be passed on or shared out in higher wages . |
| 23 | I would have thought the threat that you 're not going to get on because you 've had a crap appraisal would be fairly significant and I think that most branch managers |
| 24 | One would have thought the agreement could be reached easily on that matter . |
| 25 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 26 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 27 | ‘ But I would have thought the role called for a mature lead . |
| 28 | ‘ I would have thought the Department of Transport could at least have told us what was happening . ’ |
| 29 | Robert Hughes , Aberdeen North , said : ‘ I would have thought the Chancellor would be desperate to get some extra revenue . |
| 30 | I would have thought the tulip that went in the er coal scuttle the tulips in the cauldron I thought they 'd had it , they were lying down completely . |