Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [noun prp] [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , some way further on , in a feature of self-congratulation and vicarious identification , the svelte couple whose lifestyle and dinner party habits were being extolled in full double page ( low cholesterol ) spread colour for emulation by fellow believers , were clearly seen in full frontal and blatant use of the Kiwi — plus ça change , as Clarence Birdseye might have said . |
| 2 | No man as prudent as William Titford would have paid out good money for a family grave unless he had some firm evidence that there would eventually be some bodies to put in it . |
| 3 | Just as we attempt to exert control over our children , physically and mentally from birth through to adolescence , so we suppress and as William Blake would have affirmed ) repress their spontaneity and imagination . |
| 4 | The balance of the side is just as Bobby Robson would have wished it ; bearing in mind the need for midfield solidity , Rocastle would probably have played anyway . |
| 5 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 6 | Johnson devotes a long paragraph to the old woman 's but as Dr Livingstone might have described an African kraal . |
| 7 | I accepted his offer as Sir Galahad must have accepted the Holy Grail . |
| 8 | But as Ted Sandy-man ought to have realised , ‘ you 've got to have grist before you can grind ’ ; machine-masters end up machine-minders , and all for nothing , or rather for an insidious logic of expansion . |
| 9 | This theory is quite untrue , as Mr Hughes could have discovered from the simplest textbook . |
| 10 | I think the Danuese battalions were the idea of someone high up at home and they did n't wish to offend him by indicating that his brainchild was , as Mr Burnett would have said , a white elephant . |
| 11 | As Oliver Hardy might have remarked , ‘ That 's another fine riff you 've gotten me into . ’ |
| 12 | As Oliver Hardy might have remarked , ‘ That 's another fine riff you 've gotten me into . ’ |
| 13 | The enthusiasm generated by this approach can , however , blind ; the simplicism , the ‘ nothing butism ’ as Julian Huxley would have said , of reducing all functional explanations of complex behaviour to calculations concerning the relative fitnesses ( see p. 42 ) of gene-bearers tends to miss the major significance of human beings to other human beings . |
| 14 | Surely they did n't lose both : as Lady Bracknell might have said , that looks like carelessness . |
| 15 | ONE bomb in the City of London may be regarded as a misfortune , as Lady Bracknell might have put it ; two looks like carelessness . |