Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] [det] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that erm , it does you good to have a job , it looks good on a C V , and they would do as little as possible , and if you , if you disciplined them , then one of them says oh well , I 'll leave , me dad will give me the money anyway . |
| 2 | Of course , people would do as much as they could on their own , partly because it was n't easy to send for a vet in a faraway place like Baldersdale , which did n't have many telephones , and partly because of the expense . |
| 3 | A barge would carry as many as 500 casks . |
| 4 | These would draw as many as 250 people , including established names such as Karl Kraus , Heinrich Mann , and Else Lasker-Schüler , and received wide press coverage . |
| 5 | Whereas current strategy assumed that the USA would have as little as two weeks to reinforce NATO troops in the event of the Soviet Union mobilizing for an invasion of Europe , the new plan suggested that the future response time could be as long as two years , and that this would allow the USA ample time to bring reserve divisions up to full strength . |
| 6 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 7 | Nora was determined that the tragedy would impinge as little as possible on Constance 's life . |
| 8 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 9 | THE Government last night signalled its determination to ride out the political storm surrounding its compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees and said it would deport as many as necessary to convince thousands more would-be boat people not to seek refuge in Hong Kong next spring . |
| 10 | In a confident speech , Mr Yeltsin told deputies he would add as many as five ‘ experienced , authoritative industrialists and managers ’ to his team , but warned them that wholesale changes would lead to ‘ major destabilisation in our society ’ . |
| 11 | Major problems would also be caused to the high proportion of international passengers at King 's Cross — perhaps they would represent as many as three quarters of the total of such passengers . |
| 12 | To those ladies who were responsible for dealing with this charitable effort , she would offer as much as five shillings for a bundle of what appeared to them as less attractive articles , especially if they were food-stained , as some old gentlemen 's coats often were . |