Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 2 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry my honourable friend , the member for South Worcestershire , was unable to make all the points that he he he wanted to do as I would have been interested to hear them . |
| 4 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 5 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 6 | I saw myself , Frank L. Cauldhame , and I saw myself as I might have been : a tall slim man , strong and determined and making his way in the world , assured and purposeful . |
| 7 | She 's very good to us , her elderly parents , even though I have n't always been as good a father as I should have been . |
| 8 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 9 | I was n't two or three foot back like this as I should have been , I was up here . |
| 10 | I think it 's outrageous as I could have been killed . |
| 11 | This pension replaces your SERPS ; and the DHSS will assume that you are receiving at least as much as you would have been from them ( you might be , but you might receive much less — there are no guarantees ) . |
| 12 | She was pale , but not as shocked as she might have been . |
| 13 | Flighty as she might have been until then , Liza Tremayne was still a virgin . |
| 14 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 15 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 16 | This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there . |
| 17 | The intense tropical heat was debilitating and Eva was n't as wise as she should have been about her health . |
| 18 | Luckily we were over Germany and not the worst nightmare , over the Channel , as we would have been thirty minutes more into the flight . |
| 19 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
| 20 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 21 | It was partly true [ that we were not as good at TV as we might have been ] , but that was also partly distorted by how good we were at press . |
| 22 | God knows we were not always as discreet as we might have been . |
| 23 | ‘ Arthur Andersen felt that we had n't been as strong on the commercial management as we should have been . |
| 24 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 29 | Prefaced by ground plans of the three principal floors , each chapter is devoted to one interior , reproducing drawings , watercolours and photographs of these rooms as they might have been , were and are , along with many illustrations of objects within them . |
| 30 | 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 . |