Sentence examples for have envisaged that from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The arrangement was probably the best that Monica could have envisaged at this stage for her son, given his restless sexual energies.

Some later architectural theorists have become so concerned with the rapid obsolescence of modern buildings that they have envisaged edifices that express the temporary nature of these transitory qualities and are therefore built in such a way as to enable the structures themselves to be discarded completely after a few years.

Many delegates and representatives of environment groups have said how even just weeks ago, they could never have envisaged a deal that was so ambitious – even when it was still not ambitious enough.