Example sentences of "would have [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he did n't want a beating , or worse , he 'd have to pander to these monsters . |
| 2 | To avoid this , credit rationing would have to extend to all institutions . |
| 3 | A court would interpret such words in their natural manner which is objective , i.e. the Secretary of State could not simply rely upon his own subjective beliefs , but would have to point to some evidence from which it could reasonably be inferred that , for example , Napoleon was a person of hostile origin . |
| 4 | But who would have gone to such lengths to scare her , and why ? |
| 5 | Teachers would have to agree to unlimited teaching hours and weekend and bank holiday working . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 7 | This would have plummeted to single figures but for the influx of wealthy Iraqi ‘ refugee holidaymakers ’ now fleeing Saddam Hussein 's regime . |
| 8 | The dangers of dependence on rich men would be and were regularly pointed out : if the local parties were not themselves independent then they would have to turn to rich outsiders to fight their elections for them , as The Times pointed out in 1911 : |
| 9 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 10 | Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and we must rearm , does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment ? |
| 11 | However , Lutz et al. ( 1975 ) recognise that southwest of the Groningen High reburial would have led to renewed gas generation from the late Cretaceous onwards ; Lutz et a/. record the initial generation phase as having occurred from late Triassic to mid Jurassic . |
| 12 | But hardly anyone took this seriously , and much of Darwin 's own book was devoted to a discussion of the factors that would have led to mental progress . |
| 13 | Prospective information on cycle variability during treatment would have led to potential selection bias . |
| 14 | ‘ A number of local residents commented that there was already a disproportionate ratio of pigs to people in the locality and although proposals to extend the operation would have led to some improvement , in that a new farrowing house would have been built to bring the pigs in from the old farm buildings , in fact the larger pig population would increase the scope for offensive odours to permeate the village . ’ |
| 15 | It was not an answer he would have given to many people , but he looked on Edna as an equal . |
| 16 | By the time the radius had got down to thirty kilometers , the escape velocity would have increased to 300,000 kilometers per second , the velocity of light . |
| 17 | Who would have thought fifteen years on , we would have progressed to tractor-mounted brush and flame-weeders ? |
| 18 | Its partners had probably accepted that they would have to acquiesce to some kind of compromise within the package deal . |
| 19 | In 1989 it was planned that doctors would have to work to new contracts , under which their pay would be more clearly related to the number of patients . |
| 20 | Whether he would have come to that conclusion if the building was betting-shop is an interesting thought , but we ‘ ve been delighted to go along with his judgement . |
| 21 | It is highly unlikely that TBC personnel would have agreed to such criteria for news without heavy pressure from the Minister or someone else prominent in the Government . |
| 22 | They would have to rise to that level at which the monetary sector was forced to find some other solution to its liquidity shortage , perhaps by calling in advances to customers and reducing the stock of its outstanding deposits . |
| 23 | Adults in those circumstances would have spoken to each other , but not children . |
| 24 | In provincial towns we noticed the relatively small numbers of £3 — £9 assessments , corresponding to the main body of husbandmen in villages ; similarly in London there was a shortage of £10 — £39 assessments , even of the £40. — £99 ones , which in other , smaller towns would have belonged to local merchants and leading master craftsmen . |
| 25 | ‘ Most of the radioactive nuclides would have decayed to stable atoms before they could possibly be released to the environment by the slow corrosion process . ’ |
| 26 | The idea that the army should be a microcosm of the nation , or representative of it in any true sense , would have seemed to most contemporaries ridiculous or even shocking . |
| 27 | In the censorship scale obscene literature might be rated as less serious than racist literature but both would have to defer to seditious literature which normally does not find its way on to library shelves . |
| 28 | Such stroppiness would have amounted to commercial suicide after ten months of silence . |
| 29 | It was forecast that by the close of 1991 the revenue from sales worldwide of CD-ROM hardware and software would have amounted to some $3.2 billion of which the title component would be $2.3 billion , a proportion which would steadily increase . |
| 30 | Every week we would have to adjust to new teachers ; it made us adaptable but did n't do much for our education . |