Example sentences of "have thought that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 2 | One would have thought that Marxism and Lacanism would inhabit wholly disparate worlds of thought ; the former is rationalistic and teleological , whereas for Lacan , as Bowie says , ‘ arguments directed towards a terminus are falsehoods ’ . |
| 3 | I would have thought that overreaction would at least be preferable to the apathy currently being shown by both the government and general public alike . |
| 4 | I should have thought that , in the abstract , no one was likely to quarrel with that statement . |
| 5 | WHO would have thought that Eastern Europe could ever become so fashionable ? |
| 6 | Surgeon Commander James Francis , senior medical officer ( diving medicine ) at the Institute of Naval Medicine , says : ‘ I would have thought that 30 metres was a reasonable depth for most sports divers . |
| 7 | You might have thought that the last bastion of resistance to computers would come from the classic craft environment of hand animation . |
| 8 | Who would have thought that the Oakland As , celebrated by Mr Will and thought to be a collection of giants , would have been blown away in the World Series by a bunch of journeymen from Cincinnati ? |
| 9 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 10 | When I used to read to you in bed you must have thought that Coleridge 's mummified corpse was lying between us . |
| 11 | They would certainly have thought that such events were unlikely to happen for millennia to come — if at all . |
| 12 | WHO would have thought that those Spandau Ballet boys would have turned out to be such fine thespians ? |
| 13 | One would have thought that the Incas might have invented a llama cart , given other ingenuities that they displayed . |
| 14 | Even so , who would have thought that Yorkshire would be seeking salvation by recruiting an 18-year-old from India ? |
| 15 | I would have thought that anyone with the most elementary grasp of relative importance would have decided that priority should be accorded to a female child done to death by some scoundrel . ’ |
| 16 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 17 | He had brought three British Labour MPs to Derry and may have thought that the opportunity to expose the RUC should not be wasted . |
| 18 | If you had not known who O was you might have thought that Madame was planning a seduction , or wondering whether he was a suitable candidate for a job — her new barman or doorman . |
| 19 | It was an insignificant moment , no one there would have thought that it was to be the first movement in such a great drama , not only for them but also for those watching . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 21 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 22 | As she was a devout Anglican , somewhat callously I may have thought that death to her was not the ‘ end ’ it might be to others . |
| 23 | Who would have thought that the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written could be encapsulated in a microchip ? |
| 24 | All our friends reacted very favourably to our new daughter , though I am sure that some must have thought that it was an odd thing to do , to take another child when our own were nearly adult . |
| 25 | When asked by a government committee what people were to do who could not afford 5s. a week rent for a room , her answer was , ‘ I should have thought that when the cost of living rose the wages must necessarily rise , or something more efficient be done . |
| 26 | You 'd have thought that the enormous Ballroom was on fire . |
| 27 | 1 should have thought that that was the punishment , not the education , though God knows there are plenty around who think of education that way . |
| 28 | The Tournament at Eglinton caught the fancy of the nation at the time but few who were involved could have thought that it would be so well remembered 150 years later . |
| 29 | But I suppose in the last resort , they must have thought that the less sophisticated engineering featured here is only likely to attract a specialist audience . |
| 30 | I would have thought that there would be an appreciable market for this CD , which , on a personal level , I have enjoyed a great deal . |