Example sentences of "as we might have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of robots in manufacturing industry is an often-quoted example of job destruction ( or , as we might have said in a more optimistic era , job saving ) . |
| 2 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 3 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
| 4 | As we might have guessed , the importance of Laurence 's wife 's money overrode any other consideration . |
| 5 | We did not collect as much objective data as we might have done with a white group . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 7 | ( A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing that the universe is not as simple as we might have thought ! ) |
| 8 | There is not , as we might have expected , a simple decline in how well it remembers as time passes . |
| 9 | There are only minor things erm , Chris suggested changes to the procedures , just tidying them up as we might have expected at this stage really erm . |