Example sentences of "as [pers pn] might have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 2 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 3 | I saw myself , Frank L. Cauldhame , and I saw myself as I might have been : a tall slim man , strong and determined and making his way in the world , assured and purposeful . |
| 4 | She was pale , but not as shocked as she might have been . |
| 5 | Flighty as she might have been until then , Liza Tremayne was still a virgin . |
| 6 | It was partly true [ that we were not as good at TV as we might have been ] , but that was also partly distorted by how good we were at press . |
| 7 | God knows we were not always as discreet as we might have been . |
| 8 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 9 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 10 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
| 11 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 12 | Prefaced by ground plans of the three principal floors , each chapter is devoted to one interior , reproducing drawings , watercolours and photographs of these rooms as they might have been , were and are , along with many illustrations of objects within them . |
| 13 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 14 | However , Lithuania are n't going to be as dangerous as they might have been as several of their top stars did n't make the trip . |
| 15 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 16 | Already there are suggestions from Australia that the Raiders ' post-Grand Final party lasted all the way to Manchester , in other words that their preparation for the game was not as dedicated as it might have been . |
| 17 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 18 | Because the quality of water was good and the price relatively low , it had not been used ‘ as wisely as it might have been ’ . |
| 19 | Indeed , he told himself as he walked briskly across the courtyard toward the covered way that led past Pathology and Pharmacy to the rear of the hospital and his own unit , it was not quite as bad as it might have been , taking it all around . |
| 20 | The development , not always as carefully planned as it might have been , of two sets of responsibilities — pastoral and academic — obviously needed to be integrated if confusion and conflict were to be avoided . |
| 21 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |
| 22 | It was not without its problems — co-operation between the individual producers was not always as effective as it might have been and it lacked a satisfactory system of ensuring that the quality of productions was kept uniformly high — but it was an influential scheme , and the bias towards the tape-slide medium amongst audio-visual teaching aids in the UK remains to this day . |
| 23 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 24 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 25 | The movement revealed her face as it might have been when she was young , comely and a temptation to coachmen . |
| 26 | Did this , he was asked yesterday , mean that the economy had not been managed as well as it might have been during the Thatcher years ? |
| 27 | Hence Juice was probably not as big a box-office success as it might have been , although it did make money . |
| 28 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 29 | Although not as catastrophic as it might have been , the Battle of East Gate was a resounding defeat for the Dwarfs . |
| 30 | It was not as catastrophic as it might have been . |