Example sentences of "[noun] as we [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did n't get as many cars as we would have liked from funeral directors , ’ said managing director Lowrie as copySlay , ‘ but they 've got their responsibility to their trade . |
| 2 | We did not collect as much objective data as we might have done with a white group . |
| 3 | There was a bump as we must have crossed the central reservation and then one said I was going out . |
| 4 | All in all , we shall have the same problems as we would have had if the poll tax had remained . |
| 5 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 6 | ‘ We achieved about as satisfactory a report as we could have hoped for and that has helped us enormously in developing the future of the organisation . |
| 7 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 8 | And I can only really regret with er with hindsight that er we as a District Council did n't pursue our point er more vigorously , erm as our general approach to these matters is er to cooperate as far as we possibly can rather than enter into conflict , and I think that perhaps we had n't given as much emphasis to er the er our views as we ought to have done . |