Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the contest is really close , we may have to await the actual results . |
| 2 | Then , suddenly , humping her shoulders , Sophie said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to do the correct thing and inform them that we 're going to set up here . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 4 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 5 | At one point it looked like we 'd have to restore the whole room . |
| 6 | Knew we 'd have to do the old ones , so I dug out all the figures of the last two years ’ productions . ’ |
| 7 | We 'd have to get the bloody books out if I was here . |
| 8 | As a result of that , and I think to make sure this is something we would have to ask the advisory committee but I would read it that that includes mutual recognition of eldership . |
| 9 | We would have to put the entire army in jail . ’ |
| 10 | In other words , to obtain an initial fair comparison we would have to multiply the industrial related deaths by at least a factor of two and compare that figure with the number of recorded homicide cases . |
| 11 | When Thersites sees soldiers — we would have to change the modern parallel to those semi-pornographic animated cartoons like Ralph Bakshi 's Heavy Traffic and Fritz the Cat , or sado-masochistic literature — he sees a degraded struggle over a whore by men running with disease . |
| 12 | ‘ We will have to tackle the major issues , ’ Peter Melchett had said , a shade regretfully , when asked how Greenpeace , with its policy of high-profile direct actions , would deal with the nebulous elements of climate warming . |
| 13 | ‘ But the political reality is that we will have to reshape the whole proposal . ’ |
| 14 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 15 | If we have to criticize the Gesell studies because they were too unscientific , we will have to criticize the monumental National Child Development Study because it is too scientific . |