Example sentences of "as they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 2 | In these ways , our relationship with others grows and deepens , freeing them to be in Christ as they might long to be . |
| 3 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 4 | But it also suggests that many –normal , healthy' people are not as immune from everyday chemicals as they might appear to be . |
| 5 | It could n't be simpler , but be warned , the answers may not be as obvious as they might appear . |
| 6 | A bee has 5000 facets and would see flowers rather as they might appear in a pointillist painting . |
| 7 | One if you want the best when you pig out you have to pay for them , and two they are not always as meaty as they might appear . |
| 8 | Sufficient knowledge and experience exists within Admin to keep normal operations going on the Altos , and to deal with operational problems as they might arise . |
| 9 | We have looked at abilities , experience and goals as they might influence behaviour at work . |
| 10 | It 's just that I think that they do n't publicize a lot of the services as well as they might do . |
| 11 | Not even all Conservative politicians were happy with the implications of the notion of compulsory sales , particularly as they might affect rural areas , and certain safeguards have had to be incorporated . |
| 12 | The following excerpt from the articles was cited by Morland J. as an example of the allegations as they might affect the reputation of the council and might be defamatory : |
| 13 | The Secretary of State for Transport on the interpretation of powers contained in the Ports Bill , as they might affect ports in Scotland ; |
| 14 | When you are able to do this with the major scales , try the various minors , modes and arpeggios , mixing them up as they might occur in a chord progression . |
| 15 | Greenidge was happy to admit that playing alongside the South African was ‘ an education and an inspiration ’ , but he also conceded that while they both had many outstanding days individually they did not score as many runs in partnership as they might have done , since they were both attacking players and therefore risk-takers . |
| 16 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 17 | In a century of imperial expansion it was inevitable that many sons died far from home and not , as they might have wished , in the bosom of the family . |
| 18 | In the event , the ending of their two Dorset years came with dramatic suddenness , and brought not a narrowing of their lives , as they might have feared , but the beginning of a period marked by profound and creative friendship . |
| 19 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 20 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
| 21 | Characters are cut-outs , mental events are banned as if the Bloomsbury tradition needed to be ruthlessly exorcised , and names like Miles Malpractice in Vile Bodies explain character in boldly extra-realistic ways , much as they might have done in Bunyan 's Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 22 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 23 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 24 | Prefaced by ground plans of the three principal floors , each chapter is devoted to one interior , reproducing drawings , watercolours and photographs of these rooms as they might have been , were and are , along with many illustrations of objects within them . |
| 25 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 26 | While the Macintosh and PC both have a number of data base programs in common ; Ashton Tate 's dBASE and Blyth Omnis/Crystal being the best supported , the software houses do n't seem to have kept the products quite as similar as they might have done . |
| 27 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She enjoyed their company , although she did not read their books as closely as they might have wished , for she had a strong and idiosyncratic sense of history , particularly of the Stuart period ( like my grandfather , she was a descendant of Charles II , in her case from Nell Gwyn , in his from Lucy Walter ) . |
| 30 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |