Example sentences of "i would have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 2 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 3 | I was in two minds about closing the door , but decided that it would be safer to do so ; if anyone came through it unexpectedly I would have a split second to look lost and nonchalant . |
| 4 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 5 | He himself had gone to University College , Oxford , so he thought I should apply there , because I would have a greater chance of getting in . |
| 6 | And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly . |
| 7 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 8 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |