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

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1 The more immediate problem , however , was which of the two Boards ( trade or education ) should have overall authority for the juvenile side of the exchanges and Churchill may well have sensed that a controversy was brewing .
2 What imaginative job search agency would have foreseen that a champion sheepshearer could become a master garment cutter ( and , later , much more besides ) but Bernard and Laura did .
3 ‘ I should have realised that a lovely man like you would never have … ’
4 I should have realised that an author does not decide this ; the work itself decides , by suddenly letting go — as it has now done .
5 Or should he have realised that an implied term , or some other interpretation , would have been brought in to alter or anticipate the true meaning of the rule ?
6 For example , in many road accident situations , the witness will only have realised that an accident had occurred when they heard the crash , and looked round and saw the aftermath , although they will try and tell you that they actually saw the vehicles colliding .
7 Lord Denning may have reasoned that a person who is obstructed is likely to use force on the obstructor and harm him .
8 He may have considered that a minority of States should not be able to counteract a general peace settlement , in the nature of a dispositive treaty .
9 Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it .
10 I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces .
11 Regular readers will have noticed that a number of our recipes are now followed by an assessment of their nutritional content .
12 Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else .
13 He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd .
14 The public clearly believed that this ‘ restoration ’ would enhance the building 's interest despite destroying an historic element ; he must also have felt that a new timber framed facade , despite its inauthenticity , would give the pub an ‘ historic ’ character that was more readily recognisable and instantly attractive to potential customers .
15 And Anglican laymen in America may have felt that a bishop from across the ocean would be harder to influence than the local clergy , many of whom were American by origin , though in several cases they had gone to Britain to complete their education .
16 They may then have made that a major guiding light in their teaching , introducing the concept carefully but firmly , whilst at the same time concentrating on improving the agriculture and amenities .
17 Thus in SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 Donaldson J explained that a court should ask the question " Would the parties have agreed that a particular term formed part of the contract if they were reasonable men looking at the matter objectively in the knowledge that no adverse consequences could flow from the answer ? "
18 After all , she would certainly have agreed that an apology was in order .
19 He would n't have dreamed that a superior mind in the Thames Valley was planning to cross the gulf of space with an expedition living off supplies of pineapples and nuts .
20 I would have thought that a large company like Fender could supply this information with their products as a matter of course , together with technical specifications and notes on the safe usage of this product — after all , I seem to recall several musicians being electrocuted when playing their electric guitars .
21 Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source .
22 Elizabeth Titford must have thought that a London in which mobs could go on a looting spree in the City was no place to raise her young daughter .
23 Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ?
24 I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces .
25 One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth .
26 I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes .
27 But who would have thought that a humble human could do these calculations ?
28 He says he would have thought that a programme which attracts such high viewing and media attention would have sought the appropriate legal advice .
29 This is no less true in the surveying profession , and those who were once concerned only with the responsibility of quality control and personal time apportionment will have found that a position of seniority in an expanding work sector now requires a far broader range of management skills .
30 Perkin would have known that a wood match could be made .
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