Example sentences of "would have [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Consequently round houses , extensive sidings , and various buildings essential to the railway 's purpose would have to spring up , and these in their turn would require labour , which would have to live in the vicinity .
2 Although nationalists could express themselves freely in cultural terms , their aspiration for a united Ireland would have to wait for the ballot box to decide .
3 There was still no reply ; it would have to wait until the morning .
4 Was it the ultimate in malice — to make sure that Toby , when he came to , in appalling pain , would have to contend with the idea that he would eventually die alone in the darkness ?
5 Realising this , Lydia decided that she would have to aspire to the other .
6 If so , the claim would have to be dealt with under our own policy , with Lloyds Underwriters only being involved where the amount of the claim exceeds the sum insured , whereby they would have to deal with the balance of the claim over the policy limits .
7 All knew that they would have to pass through what has been described as a maelstrom , and that they would have to rely on the seamanship of their coxswain to reach the relative safety of open water ; there would be no second chance in conditions which were described as the worst in living memory . ’
8 The criticism came from the former senior chief inspector , Mr. Eric Bolton , who pointed out that , under Labour 's proposals , the inspectorate , instead of advising the Secretary of State directly , would have to rely on the secondment of some senior inspectors .
9 Instead , they would have to rely on the insurance cover held by the nuclear industry , backed by a special government fund .
10 In 1811 they returned to Britain on leave and soon it became obvious that he would have to choose between the convict 's daughter and his military career .
11 Did the trade union movement really fail to grasp that the two pre-conditions were : first , that its sense of responsibility must be seen not to be limited to a commitment in the shorter term to contribute to recovery from immediate crisis , but to extend , at the expense of short-run advantage , to the longer term commitment , to the revival of British industry and to its successful competition in world markets ; and secondly , that a Labour Government would have to preside over the management of the country 's affairs ?
12 Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement .
13 erm I would have to say in the university 's defence , as you would imagine I would say
14 There was a hotel , where you could buy an alcoholic drink , but there was only one variety of beer , which you would have to drink from the bottle at five times the English price .
15 Those seeking authenticity would have to leaf through the book in a wind-blasted , refrigerated decompression chamber in full climbing gear , with a heavy rucksack and working a treadmill ; all in an atmosphere adjusted to one third normal sea-level density .
16 And it is to the trade union that they would have to account for the exercise of that authority .
17 But most realised the tactical disadvantages of doing this , and insisted that the manifesto would have to appeal to the nobility , the gentry , most of the clergy , and " all the high church party " .
18 Not too late , Chris Court said , as he would have to listen for the Division bell and might have to run for it .
19 Governments would have to submit to the council of finance ministers rules or guidelines on budgetary policy that would go into national law .
20 It would have to happen at the speed of light .
21 When the couple , who were in their forties , unexpecte unexpectedly had a second son , the conscription officers informed them that their older son would have to serve in the army since the law exempted only one son per family .
22 But you would have to talk to the Sechem .
23 Any new agreement would have to return to the spirit of those agreements , it insists .
24 ‘ Mrs Langham would have to reach across the table , surely impossible .
25 They hailed the Paris Commune of 1870–1 as the first authentic workers ' revolution and a prototype of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , the transitional form of strong workers ' state which would have to exist between the shattering of capitalist control and the eventual abolition of all class divisions under advanced communism .
26 To imagine an activity in isolation presumably means imagining , so to speak , the minimum bit of reality which would have to exist for the activity to go on .
27 In other words , the EP would have to take on the role of approving Community legislation similarly to the way in which national parliaments currently make national laws .
28 What we almost certainly would do by such a devaluation process — from which the Labour Front Bench is now trying to distance itself — is to postpone decisions which industry would have to take in the end , anyway .
29 Then we would have to go on the run , move from place to place , rely on the people to feed and shelter us .
30 The moment she spoke to Rachel the die would be cast , and she would have to go along the road of sensible health planning and operations and anxieties and reality .
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