Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 2 | ‘ You should have said as much to him as he passed . ’ |
| 3 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
| 4 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 5 | Indeed , I recall my impression at the time was of having stepped into a prison cell , but then this might have had as much to do with the pale early light as with the size of the room or the bareness of its walls . |
| 6 | What steps were taken to protect the employees of this firm following an explosion that took place some time ago and that could have killed as many as were killed this time ? |
| 7 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 8 | Analysts say IBM may have invested as much as $200m in Supercomputing Systems Ltd Partnership , the venture it formed in April 1988 . |
| 9 | Indeed the endemic disorder of medieval society , which was little different in the late Middle Ages from what it had been earlier , may have caused as much economic disruption in a locality such as the East Anglia of the Pastons . |
| 10 | The Americans may have contributed as much as $1 billion a year to the Philippine economy in rent for the base , pay for the local people and the money spent on women , booze and other necessities . |
| 11 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 12 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 13 | From this evidence , he calculates that Rauschenberg may have produced as many as 300 works of art during this five-year period , of which one-half may have survived . |
| 14 | In the four years 1522–5 the King may have got as much as £100,000 per annum from forced loans and subsidies , but his foreign adventures were brought to a sudden and ignominious halt by the refusal to pay the ‘ amicable grant ’ . |
| 15 | Its foundation may have lain as much in the generosity of American post-war assistance as in the wondrous workings of the German financial , industrial and political systems . |
| 16 | So you make er you know we 've my I would have explained as much as I can on the phone exactly how we operate . |
| 17 | Perhaps Doc Allsop would have confirmed as much if Harry had asked him . |
| 18 | Martin here would have done as much , but that I was none too secure on my feet , and he would not let me undertake the journey home alone . |
| 19 | The implications of the contact she honestly had not considered ; she would have done as much for any who came by night . |
| 20 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |