Example sentences of "would have take [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 cos it 'd have to take a long time .
2 Fact , for two pins I 'd have taken the joint out of the oven and put me 'ead in instead .
3 ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’
4 Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights .
5 I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft .
6 British Aerospace said its advisers would have to take a detailed look at Ferranti 's books to satisfy themselves that there were no further problems before the company could proceed .
7 ‘ The old fuel cells were self supporting , ’ explained Dick 's mechanic , Nick Quint , ‘ but to work on them , one would have to take the entire cell out of the fuselage .
8 The most open arrangement was to inform a rich suitor that if he wanted a date , he would have to take the whole troupe out .
9 Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again .
10 It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda .
11 Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time .
12 As it is , Mr Major could think long and reappoint Mr Lamont , who has borne the enormous strain of knowing that , if the Tories had lost , he would have taken a substantial part of the blame .
13 Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant .
14 On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings .
15 McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ .
16 And everything would have taken a different turn .
17 We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland .
18 It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world .
19 It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing .
20 As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment —
21 As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools .
22 It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become .
23 Lord Lane would have taken a dim view , consent or no consent .
24 It would have taken no additional effort to assemble a selection representative of the period and presenting a new view of many leading artists ' activities and styles applied to this medium .
25 Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards .
26 More prestigious universities , showing a surer touch than the Royal Society of Chemistry , had refused to get involved with Elena , but the Romanian Embassy pointed out that she would have taken the Central London Poly for a much grander institution than it really was .
27 I can think of only one other man who would have taken the political risks involved and that was the late Sir Hugh Fraser .
28 He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys .
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