Example sentences of "as it [modal v] have [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 2 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 3 | In Fig. 10–3 the increase in output is not as great as it would have been if this interest rate effect had not occurred ( in which case the rise in output would be , to , rather than , to ) . |
| 4 | Maybe not as hectic as it would have been if the sun had got his hat on . |
| 5 | It was not without its problems — co-operation between the individual producers was not always as effective as it might have been and it lacked a satisfactory system of ensuring that the quality of productions was kept uniformly high — but it was an influential scheme , and the bias towards the tape-slide medium amongst audio-visual teaching aids in the UK remains to this day . |
| 6 | The movement revealed her face as it might have been when she was young , comely and a temptation to coachmen . |
| 7 | By now , the Amsterdam was heaving much as it might have been when the quays were lined with ships , although probably it was not half so fetid . |
| 8 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 9 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 10 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Robert knew that his stepdaughter would have a little inheritance , not as much as it should have been because that stubborn old woman had dipped into her capital to buy worthless stock , but it would be a nice little nest-egg all the same . |
| 12 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |