Example sentences of "[adv] as it [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM was unable to know everything about everything , much as it would have liked to — so it had to learn to cooperate . |
| 2 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |
| 3 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 4 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 5 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 6 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 7 | It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell … |
| 8 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 9 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 10 | If the European Union is to become a form of national state , it follows that it must have its own police force , just as it must have its own army . |
| 11 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 12 | The , the note is in fact er effectively the Bank of , could have endorsed it to , to a third party so to speak exactly as it would have done in any er any fiscal currency of the er of the type . |
| 13 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 14 | In a dream , she saw him skid to a halt , taking in the scene at once as it must have appeared — his brother bending over his fiancée — and , thought Sarella in dismay , taking in my submissive expression as I stupidly allow this dark monster to maul me . |
| 15 | Because the quality of water was good and the price relatively low , it had not been used ‘ as wisely as it might have been ’ . |
| 16 | This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities . |
| 17 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 18 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 19 | Did n't sell as well as it ought to have , that book . |
| 20 | Did this , he was asked yesterday , mean that the economy had not been managed as well as it might have been during the Thatcher years ? |
| 21 | The talk was a little on the short side , but even so did not hold the attention as well as it might have . |
| 22 | So , all things considered , I think I have done all right , handled my problem as well as it could have been handled . |
| 23 | In some schools , the library committee did not meet as frequently as it might have ; nor was it always as open and participatory as might have been hoped , and in at least one school the committee was subverted and eventually dissolved by senior staff . |
| 24 | The fact that the Labour Party did not lead public opinion as strongly as it might have done meant that the National government had an easier ride than it might otherwise have expected . |
| 25 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |
| 26 | ‘ My mind has n't always been focused on this operation as fully as it should have been . ’ |
| 27 | On this night though , David , if you can believe it , everything was not quite as it should have been , including the opposition . |