Example sentences of "as [noun prp] would [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 2 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 3 | The preceding section ( as Tolkien would have been the first to declare ) probably falls into the perennial academic vice of neatness , over-valuing system and ‘ invention ’ instead of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 4 | He may or may not have reached it , but the fact is he did not try where as Chapman would have been flying in there . |
| 5 | Evgeny Onegin would have been written even if Pushkin had never existed , claims Brik , just as America would have been discovered without Columbus . |