Example sentences of "have had [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 2 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 4 | If Bourke recorded some of these conversations with Blake in October he would have had to take a battery-operated audio recorder with him across the common , as well as the two-way radio , and link the two together while lying in the grass talking to Blake . |
| 5 | Five minutes later I would have had to explain a naked vicar as well . |
| 6 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 7 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 8 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 9 | But Geoff Cooke and company will have had to draw a deep breath , and had need of all their courage , if they have picked him ahead of Rob Andrew as the other stand-off to Stuart Barnes . |
| 10 | Producer , Lyn Goleby was on a visit to the school to answer questions on the film , which ranged from how much say the author had in shooting the film , to whether ’ The Bridge ’ might have had to have a happier ending if it had been made with American money . |
| 11 | Those investors ( assume a holding of 1000 shares ) who took up their rights would have seen the value of their investment fall from 1000 ( 2.34 ) = 2,340 to 1000 ( 1.98 ) = 1,980 and would have had to find a further 200 ( 190 ) = 380 to invest in the company . |
| 12 | If Shakespeare wrote a play with a cast of twenty-five , then he must have had to write a separate copy for each of the cast . |
| 13 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |