Example sentences of "as it would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
| 2 | It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s . |
| 3 | As with most fossils of this comparatively recent date , the shell looks now much as it would have done when the animal first died , except for the loss of pigment . |
| 4 | It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell … |
| 5 | The use of her first name did not imply familiarity , as it would have done in England– though she had never really got used to being on first-name basis with everyone ; she was invariably disconcerted by this custom . |
| 6 | It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish . |
| 7 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 8 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 9 | It later transpired that the Hargrave vehicle customs-cleared its load of Spanish refrigerated produce in Dover as it would have done on any night of the year , up till now . |
| 10 | The , the note is in fact er effectively the Bank of , could have endorsed it to , to a third party so to speak exactly as it would have done in any er any fiscal currency of the er of the type . |
| 11 | All this has swelled OPEC 's coffers , but not by as much as it would have liked . |
| 12 | IBM was unable to know everything about everything , much as it would have liked to — so it had to learn to cooperate . |
| 13 | The organisation would be unable to respond positively to as many requests for financial help for the arts as it would have liked . |
| 14 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 15 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 16 | On Feb. 13 Police Minister Ronni Milo said that the Shin Bet secret service " acted as it would have to act and there was no place for all the complaints and accusations " . |
| 17 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 18 | using almost three thousand hours of work on a major computer , the result is a stunning walk through the abbey as it would have appeared in the eleventh century . |
| 19 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 20 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 21 | At the Imperial War Museum , wartime historians have recreated a London street as it would have looked during the Blitz . |
| 22 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |
| 23 | The intention to run the jack of hearts on the second round was well thought out as it would have allowed declarer to retain control of the trump suit , even if the second trump trick had been lost . |
| 24 | For years he had refused , as it would have upset his hens in their rough pasture . |
| 25 | It upset him , as much as it would have upset his wife , to know that the boy had eavesdropped on this most intimate family moment . |
| 26 | The existence of silica suggests that ammonia was not an important gas , as it would have left much more limestone and dolomites . |
| 27 | But as the limits of the human memory did not enable men to retain beyond a very limited number of names ; and even if it had , as it would have required a most inconvenient portion of time , to run over in discourse , as many names of individuals , and of individual qualities , as there is occasion to refer to in discourse , it was necessary to have contrivances of abridgment . |
| 28 | The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history . |