Example sentences of "would have been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another day and they 'd have been as dead as doornails . |
| 4 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 5 | Their bloody tongues they 'd have been , they 'd have been as thick as these tables by end of day . |
| 6 | Ashi had no doubt the woman would have been as rapt at his polite charm and elegance as she herself had once been . |
| 7 | JUST a year ago , a journalist would have been as welcome at the opening meet of Prince Charles 's favourite hunt as Saddam Hussein at a Royal garden party . |
| 8 | Ten years later Burton would have been as happy as Larry . |
| 9 | There were some mornings , Monday mornings in particular , when it would have been as quick for him to walk to the main gates and then catch an internal minibus to his office block . |
| 10 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 11 | The local man replied " There would have been as much enthusiasm if you had done the same tonight . " |
| 12 | Heather would have been as disinclined to confide in Mossop as he was himself . |
| 13 | The peculiar framing of econometric questions and counterfactuals may posit alternative arrangements in which , in theory , growth would have been as good or even better . |
| 14 | Without the pioneering treatment , Jonathon would have been as tall as youngsters half his age . |
| 15 | Nothing John Smith as leader of the Opposition attack could have said would have been as damaging as the bitter words of Norman Lamont , speaking with all the knowledge and authority of a former key member of the Government . |
| 16 | Time was when places like the Waggon and Horses , within sight of the Minster , would have been as happy to welcome rugby fans as bank robbers . |
| 17 | He wonders whether Time-Warner , the company behind Cop Killer , would have been as keen to give freedom of expression to a Ku Klux Klansman advocating the killing of black children . |
| 18 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |