Example sentences of "as they [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His vision of owners applying the same judgements to their buildings as they might to their car or their rivers being polluted by waste dumping . |
| 2 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 3 | Other mares will tolerate , boss , or defer to it as they would to the mother herself . |
| 4 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 5 | Members of the public , on the other hand , would speak to a judge as they would to any other knight or peer — Sir John , or Lord Smith . |
| 6 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
| 7 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 8 | They are good , but as people they 're not as good as they ought to be . |
| 9 | It has dawned on the stock market that accounts are not as reliable as they ought to be and that dubious accounting practices may reflect underlying difficulties or at least lead to some distortion in the market 's valuation of a company 's shares . |
| 10 | To begin with the quality of the font designs can have a substantial effect ; not all versions of Times look as good as they ought to . |
| 11 | He 'd see it as some kind of betrayal , that I 'd allowed someone from outside to see that things are n't as perfect as they ought to be . ’ |
| 12 | They 'll not be as lively as they ought to be come morning , but tonight will have got a whole lot of unhappy things out of Seb 's system . |
| 13 | So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ? |
| 14 | Who would have thought we would be watching the Kirov ( as they used to be ) performing a pas de deux from Antony Tudor 's The Leaves are Fading ? |
| 15 | The risk , they argued , was judging South Africa 's rugby resources as they used to be , not what they might become . |
| 16 | For the first time , things are n't working quite as well as they used to . |
| 17 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 18 | ‘ Not as thick as they used to be , ’ snorted Squeaky , ‘ not many big uns either . ’ |
| 19 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 20 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 21 | This means that although credit cards are probably still the cheapest way to pay bills abroad , they may not be quite such good value as they used to be . |
| 22 | ‘ Now that Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole have stopped drinking , they do n't look nearly as robust as they used to . |
| 23 | Employers are not as co-operative as they used to be and players ca n't afford to throw up a job with the employment market as it is ’ — GEORGE SPOTSWOOD ( Irish RFU technical officer ) . |
| 24 | Women are not , however , forced into the worst aspects of this trade by their lack of money to the same extent as they used to be . |
| 25 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 26 | JEWKES : Here about my wrist as they used to be . |
| 27 | The recession has , however made its presence felt in one particular respect — publishers are not paying up as promptly as they used to . |
| 28 | Our prediction that multinationals would begin media campaigns to buy social and cultural acceptability seems accurate : in recent years the television screens have been full of corporations boasting about their bigness instead of concealing it , as they used to , behind their brand names . |
| 29 | As we get older our bodies are not as good at keeping warm as they used to be . |
| 30 | Actually they do do n't play as well as they used to . |