Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I suppose the Meredith-Lees would have thought her common . |
| 3 | Not so many years ago parents would have thought nothing of their children walking two or three miles to school in the morning and back again in the afternoon . |
| 4 | What is lacking , and what some at least of Anselm 's contemporaries would have thought highly blameworthy , is the complete absence of awareness of the Hildebrandine programme of the liberty of the Church — that is to say , its freedom from lay interference under a centralized papal authority . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most chess players would have thought this was inadequate to play Master-level chess even for a machine with superior positional understanding . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was indeed not what Mrs Price 's grandchildren and their friends would have thought prepossessing . |
| 9 | it would n't be more than about twenty minutes before the lan the peasants would 've thought well maybe |
| 10 | The only answer given to this question is to evoke the collective opinion of Macaulay , Froude , and Mark Rutherford : " One wonders " , writes Macgregor , " what these men would have thought , and said , about Mr. Tindall . " |