Example sentences of "as one would have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examination of the evidence from villas was not as thorough as one would have liked , as in most cases it comes from old accounts and is of extremely poor quality , with very little attempt , if any , at a stratigraphical analysis . |
| 2 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 3 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 4 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |
| 5 | Maybe I 'm being unkind , but they were n't too friendly , did n't shout out ‘ Haway , come on … thou might as well join us , ’ as one would have wished . |
| 6 | Again through the help of kind neighbours I was able to visit him now and again , though not as often as one would have wished . |