Sentence examples for had envisaged that from inspiring English sources

And even if TfL had envisaged that the project might be handed over to a trust following planning permission being secured, this would in no way represent a "change in circumstances" around the procurement, as de Cani claims.

The then government had envisaged that a 10% reduction in the hours extracted from each worker would theoretically require businesses to hire more workers, and that as a result productivity would rise in line with more personal and family time for workers and an enhanced quality of life.

However, Meyerbeer had envisaged that the main role in L'Africaine would be written for Falcon; after the catastrophic failure of her voice in 1837, he turned instead to Le prophète.

Even the gloomiest of the exit and opinion polls had envisaged that the ruling coalition, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), would lose only a couple of dozen seats, which it was expected easily to make up by wooing a few more small parties into its camp.

Mourinho had plenty to ponder but with Elliot limping off at the interval but the Portuguese could surely not have envisaged that Pardew would shortly be punching thin air with joy.

But it is hard to imagine that the Braggs could have envisaged that their work would provide an essential tool in the search for a mechanism to cure cancers.

The framers of the convention cannot have envisaged that "any obligation prescribed by law" under article 5(1)(b) could include the simple obligation not to obstruct a constable; otherwise, article 5 would permit any police power of detention however broad or unreasonable.

"I don't think any of us could have envisaged that Renault would be as far behind as they have been," said Horner.

But even then, surely no one in attendance could have envisaged that, 30 years later, the fire ceremony they were witnessing would mushroom into the 70,000 attendee-strong cultural behemoth it's become, attracting people from all over the world to its home for the past 25 years, Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

Feminism failed to make child care available to all, let alone bring about the total reconfiguration of the family that revolutionary feminists had envisaged, and that would have changed this country on a cellular level.

Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Clapham of the army prosecuting authority told the court that while such an order was against the law, "had these defendants done no more than what that order had envisaged, they would not be facing the charges that they face today".