Example sentences of "would have take a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus .
3 She knew she would have to take a look .
4 He , of course , would have to take a glass or two , enough to make him moderately sick , but that would be a small price to pay for finishing off Elinor , not to mention Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet and Nazi Who Escaped justice at Nuremberg .
5 That meant Niki would have to take a cut .
6 Iro has been in poor form for the Sea Eagles and was told several weeks ago that he would have to take a pay cut to stay with the club .
7 After some initial success , however , the Young King 's campaign ground to a halt and Henry decided that he would have to take a hand himself .
8 Since Sir Edmond 's will ruled out charging fees , there were two possible solutions : either the Goldsmiths would have to increase the stipend from their own income from Shaa 's bequest , or the local community would have to take a hand .
9 Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves .
10 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 .
11 But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place .
16 This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home .
17 Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum .
18 As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools .
19 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 .
20 Lord Lane would have taken a dim view , consent or no consent .
21 That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard .
22 It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous .
23 If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’
24 It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough .
25 The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years .
26 Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America .
27 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 .
28 It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer .
29 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 ’ .
30 These are not dramatic changes , but one might have hoped that Britain 's first woman Prime Minister would have taken a tougher line on women 's pay .
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