Example sentences of "as he [vb mod] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 2 | He looked like a local man , at home and unobtrusive in this comfortable country room as he would have been in the border landscape outside . |
| 3 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 4 | I do not think there is any difference of opinion as to its being a general rule that , where any injury is to be compensated by damages , in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured , or who has suffered , in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation or reparation . |
| 5 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 6 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 7 | Food costs have been high in the past because Fred has not been as efficient as he might have been ( he certainly seems to have neglected his record-keeping ! ) , and his action in letting Chrissie take the food was motivated by his resentment at being demoted . |
| 8 | Euripides ( and with him the more " traditional " Sophocles ) was dead , and degenerate as he might have been , the scale of his artistic gifts was not in doubt ; but there was no successor of equivalent stature to mend matters : like Athens herself , tragedy was in decline . |
| 9 | Again , she felt she was only entertaining him as he might have been entertained by a clever child . |
| 10 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 11 | Despite Leicester 's pressure the Tranmere goalkeeper was not as active as he should have been although his defence must take some credit for that . |
| 12 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 13 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 14 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 15 | But I did n't er I think his teaching days , he was getting rather old and he did n't control us as he should have been able to . |
| 16 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 17 | Dan became apologetic , taking the guide 's side , saying how much they had looked for her , instead of being protective and angry as he should have been . |
| 18 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
| 19 | He was in total control of his responses , just as he must have been , she registered , when he drove all those winning cars to victory — until the last one , of course . |