Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] as [art] [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 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 4 | So too are recent developments in what the Chicago School would have seen as the biotic level of instinctive behaviour affecting individuals and societies . |
| 5 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 6 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 7 | He was what her mother would have described as a good man . |
| 8 | 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 . |