Example sentences of "as we would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus more difficult to distinguish Σ and Π vibrations using the Raman bands , as we would have to detect the presence of P and R branches with spacings of 2B as well as the O and S branches with spacings of 4B . |
| 2 | ‘ We did n't get as many cars as we would have liked from funeral directors , ’ said managing director Lowrie as copySlay , ‘ but they 've got their responsibility to their trade . |
| 3 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 4 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 5 | This is an important question , one which we were not able to pursue in our research as far as we would have liked . |
| 6 | In other cases , however , inadequacy merely means that we have not go as much as we would have liked . |
| 7 | I mean , I am not playing with words when I say this , but it wo n't improve as fast as we would have liked it to do because of the financial situation . |
| 8 | We have won the City 's support to raise the money , as we did for Staley and our other North American acquisitions — and as we would have done if we had been allowed to buy British Sugar . ’ |
| 9 | We do not risk , as we would have done if we had handled the Bill in any other way , leaving those matters which come at the end of the Bill — as the Scottish provisions do — not to be debated fully . |
| 10 | Announcing the results of the extended talks , Baker said that " clear gains " had been achieved in arms control and trade issues , but achievements on human rights were " not as much as we would have hoped for " . |
| 11 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 12 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 13 | All in all , we shall have the same problems as we would have had if the poll tax had remained . |
| 14 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 15 | The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished . |
| 16 | Of course , we have not done everthing in just a year , nor have we taken things forward in every aspect as much as we would have wished . |
| 17 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 18 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 19 | What the traces showed was , as we would have anticipated , a steady background buzz of the spontaneous firing of the cells of the IMHV . |
| 20 | gobbled her up : as we 'd have done |