Example sentences of "would require a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A challenge , if it were to occur , would require a major issue and a trigger .
2 For those men with many partners this would require a superhuman feat of memory .
3 It would require a great deal of leadership to manage the party . ’
4 One last possible means of rescue remained but it was dangerous and would require a great deal of equipment .
5 This was partly because both he and Elena saw that it would require a great deal more experience and self-discipline to make Nicu fit for the role , and also because he did not want to rule out Elena .
6 This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years .
7 Any attempt to reduce inflation permanently would require a deep cut in government spending and tight control over the money supply .
8 Both systems would require a critical mass of terminals to be effective .
9 The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family .
10 Changing this would require a vast input of resources : the best way forward would be to capitalise on all the training opportunities thrown up by the existing system .
11 Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear .
12 Washington would require a good relationship with the new Iranian authorities , Iran being the strategically vital country it was .
13 A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over .
14 Thus , if the French verb tense system were being drilled , the stimulus could be a time word such as " yesterday " or " tomorrow " , and it would require a correct choice of verb tense .
15 Whereas the pet Rottweiler living at home would require a low degree of sharpness , a Schutzhund dog or a dog who is required to guard a family home would need to have at least a medium degree of sharpness .
16 That might work the underside , but the upperside would require a curved spokeshave , such an awkward bit of kit to use that mine stays permanently sharp .
17 For young people under 18 the problem is tremendous , since to compile a list of such people would require a complete canvas of an area simply asking at every house for details of the under-18s .
18 The conventions are so rigorous that any break with them would require a new genre ; the editorial leaflet makes this clear enough :
19 Many advantages would follow if it too could grow tall , but this would require a new technique for getting the male cell to the female .
20 Since the Philippines Constitution stipulated that the current agreement must expire in 1991 , any further agreement would require a new treaty , which would need the approval of a two-thirds majority in the Senate .
21 To unblock the well or drill a new one would require a new allocation of foreign aid .
22 As a result of closing Baberton Mains Terrace the low level option would require a new access road to serve the Baberton Housing Estate .
23 He would require a twenty-four-hour watch , as Kit could hardly trust his word ; the women were much easier to supervise and hold .
24 Self-conscious clarity about our epistemic methods , in that case , would require a perspicuous representation of the characteristics of the forms of discourse in question .
25 Successful clinical application of a treatment entailing transplantation of small intestinal enterocyte stem cells would require a suitable recipient site in which peristalsis is maintained .
26 Since this would require a constitutional change it is not likely to recruit many supporters , but the unions have some powerful government supporters on their side .
27 To show a third variable would require a three-dimensional space , and to show four would be impossible .
28 This would require a huge corpus , would be extremely difficult to estimate and would require too much storage .
29 I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that .
30 These would require a proper balance between market and state controls , backed by political reforms to restore confidence in central direction .
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