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

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1 Fun would have to take second place to the serious business of home-making and saving money .
2 A spokesman for Fife Health Board said it would have to take legal advice before any question of an appeal was considered .
3 Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement .
4 Because Brutus was such an idealistic character he felt that he would have to take important steps towards saving Rome from the evil grasp of Caesar .
5 Only then would he know for certain that it had really happened , and that he would have to take some action .
6 The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent .
7 ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident .
8 They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) .
9 Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’
10 But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time .
11 Talbot would have taken long odds that he was cold sober .
12 At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him .
13 Surely this must be one of the very first models here and at that time I never heard of anyone owning one ( it would have taken six weeks wages to pay for it ) .
14 ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way .
15 However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said .
16 This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night .
17 For a soft-shoulder Sunday mechanic like me it would have taken all day , but most of the jobs are incredibly simple to the man who can , who served his time with Ford and spent years at London Transport .
18 Monday dinner was always cold meat , for the washing would have taken all morning .
19 If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract .
20 Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and .
21 But North Tyneside , the region 's unemployment blackspot would have taken little comfort from such news .
22 It would have taken first prize at the Policeman 's Ball .
23 I should hope that anyone of lesser climbing ability that Mr Lee would have taken one look at the gully and decided that conditions were unfavourable .
24 Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate .
25 However , the position taken by the Court of Appeal loses much of its force if it can not be assumed that the House would have taken non-certified points of appeal had they been raised .
26 ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said .
27 Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right .
28 But it would have taken more courage than I could muster .
29 If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ .
30 Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert .
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