Example sentences of "have required an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If accumulation in the boom had been based on an unchanged mass of machinery per worker then an extension of the capital stock would have required an equivalent increase in workers employed . |
| 2 | If wages per head had not increased , the share of GDP accounted for by consumption out of wage earnings would have fallen from 52 per cent in 1952 to 31 per cent in 1970 ; this would have required an inconceivable rise in other types of spending ( by capitalists and government ) if the increase in production was to be sold . |
| 3 | A light chaise or unburdened pony could have extended this perhaps to 30 km ( 19 miles ) , but any distances above those quoted would have required an overnight stop and consequently an increase in the prices of the goods . |
| 4 | After all , the transportation of such huge and heavy slabs of rock , often over long distances , must have required an incredible investment of effort on the part of any society possessing only rudimentary technology . |
| 5 | Indeed , it must have required an enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present . |
| 6 | To translate this new legal status into political action would have required an organised support basis and this did not exist . |