Example sentences of "[modal v] have [prep] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll have to be a bit nicer to Perdita in future , ’ he said drily . |
| 2 | but not impulsively , but the , what I did have a concern about and I think we 'll have to be a bit careful about this as we go forward is that , the audio description project is about audio description , youth and funding is about volunteers |
| 3 | It 'll have to be a boy , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | There 'll have to be a union meeting . |
| 5 | The Tory whips are busy counting heads to work out whether there 'll have to be a government retreat . |
| 6 | There 'll have to be a funeral . ’ |
| 7 | I want a , I want a station waggon but it 'll have to be a Ford , personally . |
| 8 | Though , of course there 'll have to be an inquest . |
| 9 | In my ignorance of the situation , however , I conjectured that in these times of diminishing reactor safety research budgets , there might have to be a choice on the part of some countries between the two projects — but , ‘ tremendous hindrance ’ ! |
| 10 | I 'd have to be a saint to stop … ’ |
| 11 | The customers say you 'd have to be a detective to make sense of it . |
| 12 | So really erm er you 'd have to be a bit careful if you were doing that , and er I think the revenue would be pretty iffy about you holding money and paying it to a third party . |
| 13 | He shot her cool glance through his black lashes , and murmured , ‘ You 'd have to be a man to know what I meant . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 'd have to be a twist , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 16 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 17 | He 'd have to be a stranger . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd have to be a merchant or a spy , ’ said Ymor . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , son , you 'd have to be an actor to understand that one . ’ |
| 20 | In any living venture , it is impossible for any of the partners to be detached from the natural dynamics of working together in the project and there may have to be a realignment of membership during the course of the enterprise . |
| 21 | I think probably the County Council are in a better position than me er to advise you as to whether that thirty one thousand commitment figure is true of not , but if it were the case , then I think , Yes I would agree that erm the train would stop very quickly , and in view of the situation that we 're now in , there would have to be a degree of future flexibility to allow for phased reduction in development over future years . |
| 22 | I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry . |
| 23 | Bukharin realised , just as well as Preobrazhensky , that there would have to be a transfer of resources to industry if industrialisation was to proceed . |
| 24 | There would have to be a bill of rights , regular elections and a free market economic system . |
| 25 | It would have to be a taxi back to the hotel — she could n't afford it , but she knew that the London Tube system would be unbearable , with the rush-hour well into its stride . |
| 26 | No , it would have to be a taxi . |
| 27 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 28 | Such an order would be for up to three months and would have to be a ban on all or any class of processions in a given area . |
| 29 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 30 | 5.1 In considering the rate at which course proposals can be validated , the Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee recognised that there would have to be a range of validation models , each of which will be tailored to the course and the centre . |