Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install .
2 I 'll have to be sure of your total co-operation , ’ she countered sweetly , trying to deny the treacherous spread of warmth at the thought of dancing with him .
3 At least I 'll have to be able to give some reason why I suspected him . ’
4 I fancy a cup of coffee from the buffet , but I 'll have to be careful with money .
5 I 'm always crossing my fingers , I 'll have to be careful about that .
6 Brekkypoos still got ten more I 'll have to be careful this does n't oh it 's hot in here Jean is n't it ?
7 Oh well , I 'll have to be careful , I do n't know what er , what 's , what happened
8 I 'd have to be sure I loved her , and I 'm not !
9 I 'd have to be honest and say , yes , I would n't argue , ’ says a married 35-yearold estate agent .
10 To minimise error I 'd have to be low — very low !
11 I 'd have to be deaf not to hear his sports car roaring up , music blasting , honking his bloody horn night after night . ’
12 I could go out and buy spatulas and torpedos , but I 'd have to be quick .
13 I 'd have to be insane or an imbecile to do such a thing . ’
14 I 'd have to be crazy , he thought .
15 When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie .
16 I would have to be deaf to ignore your voice . ’
17 I would have to be mad .
18 Mr. Williams , the bank manager , said in evidence : ‘ before the charge was signed I would have to be satisfied that she knew what she was saying . ’
19 I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food .
20 As I shall be the only interpreter there I shall have to be present .
21 I share it with Menzies Campbell , who of course used to be an Olympic runner , so I shall have to be quick to keep up .
22 " Then I shall have to be satisfied with once a week at the Prego Café . "
23 I will be a lady no , I will have to be bigger still more .
24 I will have to be patient and then build up my knee for next season .
25 Less costly on the nose is a letter to the ticket office in which you enclose a cheque , which may have to be blank , and an sae .
26 Contemporary estimates for the period 1692 – 98 put the number of placemen at between 97 and 136 ( to which would have to be added receivers of unreported Crown pensions or bribes ) , a figure which may have risen to 200 by 1714 .
27 Above all , the three-part test of obscenity adopted by the Court in 1966 was strengthened , laying down three essential conditions , all of which would have to be satisfied in every case :
28 Lewis Gunn provided civil servants with a number of conditions which would have to be satisfied if perfect implementation of policies were to be achieved ( Hogwood and Gunn , 1984 , pp. 198–206 ; see also Hood , 1976 ) .
29 It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house .
30 You may have to be firm at times during these early days , especially at night .
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