Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] that [det] " in BNC.

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1 So the Government supports Percent for Art and I would have hoped that it would have at least done a little bit of er work little bit of homework and I would have hoped that those members that went to the Percent for Art seminar would have stood up and said something positive about what it 's about .
2 In order to show conscious memorising the employer will have to demonstrate that the complexity of the process or that the list of trade connections was so lengthy or important that an honest employee would have realised that these were the property of his employer .
3 For this reason , many in the seventeenth century would have said that such knowledge , together with knowledge of undoubted moral principles , such as that promises should be kept , is innate .
4 Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’
5 It would have ensured that all member States were in an identical legal position and avoided the problem that some member States , but not all , might be separate parties to the particular treaty .
6 A properly organised Department would have ensured that that man could be transferred immediately to his home prison for release .
7 Only someone who was after the maximum deterrent effect would have ensured that each shot hit a rock and caused that terrible screech of ricochet .
8 If I 'd have known I would have brought that this morning
9 I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education .
10 Lucy said , looking up at her , and right at that moment Josie would have sworn that some kind of a facade had dropped and that she was returning the gaze of a six year-old .
11 Who would have thought that that bright articulate girl would turn out like this ?
12 And I would have thought that that was a disgraceful thing to do in a public , in the council to a , a sample being brought up and they were afraid to look at it .
13 erm At the moment , well I would have thought that that was really unrealistic you know , the three teams joining together because geographically , they 're not really that close .
14 But but in in just the little few words you used then , I would have thought that many parents in this church would react positively .
15 I would have thought that most things have been tried by now and I would not imagine that there are many other avenues to be followed .
16 But one would have thought that any gentleman who links corporal punishment with his lady 's age is unlikely to have his twilight years shared .
17 WHO would have thought that those Spandau Ballet boys would have turned out to be such fine thespians ?
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