Example sentences of "as it would [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Troop — 10th Leith ( Balfour Melville ) — frequently marched with the rest of the Edinburgh District Scouts and I found the flag holster a great comfort — as it would have been to " Sister Anna " — since , in the song , she only had a " banner-carrying navel " as I recall . |
| 2 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 4 | It 's as near to the as it would have been from there |
| 5 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 6 | It was soft , but as brisk and clear as it would have been in the middle of the day . |
| 7 | A reconstruction ( looking NW ) of the area of the Atlas works of Simpson , Maule & Nicholson , as it would have been in the 1860s . |
| 8 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |
| 9 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 10 | The restoration enables visitors to see it as it would have been in use in good running order but not ‘ as new ’ . |
| 11 | Both are drawn from archival and historical records and show the High Street as it would have been in 1540 , at the close of the last independent century of Scottish culture and accomplishment when 22 kings , queens and princes lay undisturbed and revered by pilgrims in the abbey . |