Example sentences of "[modal v] have guessed from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
| 2 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 3 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
| 4 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 5 | Who would have guessed from his cold efficiency that this was only Damien 's second contest in two years . |
| 6 | I ought to have guessed from the smell , but it was new to me . " |
| 7 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , I must apologise for dragging you in here at such short notice , but as you will have guessed from the Meeting Notice the urgency … ’ |