Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 2 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 3 | I must have looked as astonished as I felt . |
| 4 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
| 5 | In the hands of a Christopher Isherwood some of these characters might have become as memorable as Sally Bowles in Goodbye To Berlin . |
| 6 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |
| 7 | It might have sounded as flippant as the question was importunate . |
| 8 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 9 | What steps were taken to protect the employees of this firm following an explosion that took place some time ago and that could have killed as many as were killed this time ? |
| 10 | Analysts say IBM may have invested as much as $200m in Supercomputing Systems Ltd Partnership , the venture it formed in April 1988 . |
| 11 | The film had cost at least $25 million ( and may have soared as high as $33 million if all costs were considered ) which , in 1970 dollars , put it way above the epic category . |
| 12 | The Americans may have contributed as much as $1 billion a year to the Philippine economy in rent for the base , pay for the local people and the money spent on women , booze and other necessities . |
| 13 | Moreover , to a very great extent bourgeois morality was actually applied ; indeed it may have become increasingly effective as the masses of the ‘ respectable ’ working classes adopted the values of the hegemonic culture , and the lower middle classes , which followed it by definition , grew in numbers . |
| 14 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 15 | From this evidence , he calculates that Rauschenberg may have produced as many as 300 works of art during this five-year period , of which one-half may have survived . |
| 16 | In the four years 1522–5 the King may have got as much as £100,000 per annum from forced loans and subsidies , but his foreign adventures were brought to a sudden and ignominious halt by the refusal to pay the ‘ amicable grant ’ . |
| 17 | So you make er you know we 've my I would have explained as much as I can on the phone exactly how we operate . |
| 18 | By later blackboard-jungle classroom-rebel standards he would have appeared as disciplined as a fearful nun . |
| 19 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |