Example sentences of "would have [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 2 | Mary had once mentioned Tom to her but his marriage to Alice would , she knew , be of no significance in the intensely inward life of the old woman whom unsympathetic observers would have categorised as a mad old crone . |
| 3 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 4 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 5 | He was what her mother would have described as a good man . |
| 6 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
| 7 | It is a term which Carver would have used as a young man to dissociate himself and his peers from others , and its use here encourages the reader to share Carver 's memories of his own surprise and , perhaps , disappointment at Gardner 's appearance . |