Sentence examples for might have supposed from inspiring English sources

Her reaction, you might have supposed, was at least partly nostalgic.

One might have supposed that miracles were beyond proof and therefore beyond argument, but Hume didn't think so.

Can it be that the chief justice and the junior justice have more in common than we might have supposed?

It is immediately, and surprisingly, easy to talk to her about subjects one might have supposed were off limits.

A cynic might have supposed, before the event began, that Mr Cameron was due a polite hearing because he was bringing Manchester a message locals wanted to hear.

Something good happened to change it, and you might have supposed that the change would be an opportunity for celebration and optimism.

"Men were more gentlemanly," she recalls, "than you might ever have supposed".

Some of the public might even have supposed that an agreement had been reached, but the SFA stuck by its policy that there could only be an additional half-hour if the final went to a third game.

You might have noticed that he did not even pause for traffic signals, but charged across streets against the lights; and so you might rightly have supposed that he could not see through the floral arrangement that he held (doing what he could to keep clear of thorns) at arm's length before him.

But if new circumstances can lead to the recognition of new duties, why may they not lead to the recognition that there are fewer duties than we might otherwise have supposed?

Louis, the melancholy, abandoned common-law husband, who runs a business called MetaFashion, is described as "the child an Anita Brookner heroine might have had, supposing an acceptable suitor had turned up to woo her and then she'd turned him away, although pregnant, on moral grounds".