Example sentences of "would [vb infin] have [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you 'd invented a string of lovelorn swains you 'd have had to pay customer prices .
2 If the trust had n't needed these holes we 'd have had to bring soil in by lorry at great expense through surrounding villages which no one would have liked .
3 So we would have have to make sacrifices in some respects .
4 Freddie resolutely refused to rehearse with water because he would have had to drink glass after glass and , being a bitter expert , he refused to drink bottled beer .
5 Jeremy Bates was not ranked high enough to have gone straight into the main singles draw and would have had to take part in the qualifying competition .
6 There A would have had to take proceedings for ‘ discovery ’ against B in Chancery to get the disclosure , and another action in the Common Law Courts for his actual claim .
7 If he had lived , Alexander would have had to take action .
8 She replied she would have remembered because she would have had to take action .
9 In both litigation and arbitration the parties would have had to use accountants as expert witnesses , with the judge or arbitrator deciding between them , on the basis of the expert witnesses ' reports and their ability to withstand cross-examination .
10 Without the sale of company securities , other things being equal , the public sector would have had to issue government securities .
11 His furniture , perhaps his carriages , would have been seized ; he would have had to hire others .
12 Chief executive Frank Burns said : ‘ We would have had to spend 50pc of the cost on fire precautions in any case , so we have taken this opportunity to provide what is the most important building in Wirral with an entrance that gives patients , staff and visitors a welcoming and efficient first impression . ’
13 With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up .
14 During the first year after his return , when the royal position was in the balance , Henry would have had to give way if Anselm had insisted on his renouncing homage and investiture .
15 Firstly , everybody likely to be a member of a selection panel would have had to give consent — a formidable logistic problem .
16 He would have had to make deals with numerous petty bosses to get where he was today , and still there was no guarantee against the greed of the Triads .
17 The other Girls would have had to send money home but Jane set aside a similar sum to tide her over periods of unemployment .
18 Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them .
19 Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 .
20 I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies .
21 Nigel would have had to pay duty on the whole estate without reduction . ’
22 He would have owed the trust £10,000 in interest and thus would have had to find £4,000 out of his own pocket .
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