Example sentences of "[verb] as [pers pn] [modal v] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry my honourable friend , the member for South Worcestershire , was unable to make all the points that he he he wanted to do as I would have been interested to hear them . |
| 3 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said : ‘ Although there were two lockable proper gun cabinets not all the guns and ammunition were stored as they should have been . ’ |
| 4 | Well meant as it may have been , one wonders what accusations would have sprouted had the Tory Party used similar methods . |
| 5 | In contrast to this static , theatrical production , during the last weekend of the 1988 York Festival the last four mystery plays were re-enacted as they would have been in the fifteenth century . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 7 | The development , not always as carefully planned as it might have been , of two sets of responsibilities — pastoral and academic — obviously needed to be integrated if confusion and conflict were to be avoided . |