Example sentences of "as [pers pn] might [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flighty as she might have been until then , Liza Tremayne was still a virgin . |
| 2 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 3 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
| 4 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 5 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 6 | Did this , he was asked yesterday , mean that the economy had not been managed as well as it might have been during the Thatcher years ? |
| 7 | That judgment , passed in 1953 , has never been challenged , as it might have been by an appeal to the House of Lords sitting in its appellate civil jurisdiction capacity . |
| 8 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |