Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been as timid as the girl herself , if she had looked at me ! |
| 2 | Dancing with Andrew should have been as magical as when , in dreams , she had danced with Berry or Jonah . |
| 3 | He should have been as frozen as she was herself . |
| 4 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 5 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 6 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 7 | It was an unhealthy enough place to be even at the best of times , swampy and malaria-ridden ; any Europeans trading there would have been only too aware of the risks involved , and the depleted crew of the Orynthia , overworked and probably ill-fed , must have been as vulnerable as they could possibly be . |
| 8 | The changes must have been as great as those in western Europe after 1789 , but their impact could only be traced piecemeal . |
| 9 | The Thames valley Saxons must have been as anxious as Oswald and Anna to contain Penda . |
| 10 | It must have been as clear to him as it was to her that Jeff , most definitely , was n't acting . |
| 11 | He must have been as tired as she was , having undoubtedly had a lot less sleep … |
| 12 | Wolves 1 Middlesbrough 2 THE final 25 minutes of this nerve-wracking game must have been as dramatic as any in Middlesbrough 's history . |
| 13 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 14 | I might have been as good as you , and perhaps wiser . |
| 15 | Erm that might have been as well another reason for selling to friends , erm because most of the stuff we bought anyway was new so that does n't really come into it . |
| 16 | The young man — perhaps not quite so young after all , he might have been as much as thirty — came forward into the room , closing the door behind him . |
| 17 | Carrie wished it might have been as meaningful to Seb . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seems clear that Branwell had so much potential , he might have been as successful as his sisters . |
| 20 | ‘ It could have been as long ago as last Christmas , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The date of the demise of the military arsenals is not known , although it could have been as early as the late third century . |
| 22 | We do not know how long he stayed in Paris — it could have been as long as a decade . |
| 23 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 24 | She married into the worst of Mother 's years , whereas I had the best , and I wonder if I 'd have been as unselfish as Lynda . |
| 25 | Another day and they 'd have been as dead as doornails . |
| 26 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 27 | Their bloody tongues they 'd have been , they 'd have been as thick as these tables by end of day . |
| 28 | This may have been as much due to tradition as to limited supplies or tin . |
| 29 | George Antonius suggested that the true statistic of starvation deaths in all Syria — including present-day Lebanon — may have been as high as 350,000 . |
| 30 | Field evidence ( D. J. Laming , pers. com. ) suggests it may have been as little as 2 or 3 km . |