Example sentences of "as we would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Without line B , we might reasonably conclude that this evaluation is the poet 's judgment , just as we would suppose for the preceding verses , 15–16 ( though the presence of ) in v. 15 may give us second thoughts ) . |
2 | Some of these big fish fetch big prices , two or three times as much as we would pay for them here , and they will go to the classy restaurants or the Marseille fish shops , but the boxes of little slithery bright pink fish called demoiselles and the miscellaneous collections of bony little rock fish , undersized whiting and other small fry , will go for very little . |
3 | Out of it she drew a little distaff , much as we would draw out a pair of knitting needles . |
4 | Even as the siren voices in the poem call us towards speech , we 're aware that our own one voice can never hope to carry all these as we would want it to . |
5 | As she was only about fourteen , we always bought a few dark-red carnations from her , but that was as far as we would go , to her surprise and indignation . |
6 | When a horse communicates by sound it is not using language as we would expect it to . |
7 | Table 4.5 shows that , as we would expect , cognitive impairment increased over the year in all samples . |
8 | The remains of fish are rare , as we would expect , although Evans ' excavators found fish vertebrae in a cooking pot at Knossos . |
9 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
10 | Alright but in any double logged mode , right , the coefficients you estimate are elasticities , so we look at the incoming elasticity , we get a measure , or we get an estimate point six eight , right , that 's a positive as we would expect suggesting that er erm textiles are a normal good , right . |
11 | Whereas the rate of chemical reaction between carbonic acid and calcite increases , as we would expect , with temperature , the equilibrium solubility of carbon dioxide decreases with temperature ( at 20°C it is only half that at 0°C ) . |
12 | Freud talks about the ego as an agency , a psychological agency , just as we would talk about say er a social agency . |
13 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
14 | We have won the City 's support to raise the money , as we did for Staley and our other North American acquisitions — and as we would have done if we had been allowed to buy British Sugar . ’ |
15 | Luckily we were over Germany and not the worst nightmare , over the Channel , as we would have been thirty minutes more into the flight . |
16 | ‘ We did n't get as many cars as we would have liked from funeral directors , ’ said managing director Lowrie as copySlay , ‘ but they 've got their responsibility to their trade . |
17 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
18 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
19 | On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying . |
20 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
21 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
22 | This is an important question , one which we were not able to pursue in our research as far as we would have liked . |
23 | ‘ It is also possible — so unpredictable is the Law , even with a special jury as we would have — that we might get less . |
24 | The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished . |
25 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
26 | What the traces showed was , as we would have anticipated , a steady background buzz of the spontaneous firing of the cells of the IMHV . |
27 | In other cases , however , inadequacy merely means that we have not go as much as we would have liked . |
28 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
29 | It is thus more difficult to distinguish Σ and Π vibrations using the Raman bands , as we would have to detect the presence of P and R branches with spacings of 2B as well as the O and S branches with spacings of 4B . |
30 | All in all , we shall have the same problems as we would have had if the poll tax had remained . |