Example sentences of "[adv] they would have [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The major opposition to the poll tax came to the fore only when people realised how much they would have to pay .
2 At the same time the British leaders , although they soon realized just how much they would have to concede in order to regain American confidence and backing , were largely unshaken in their belief that in Middle Eastern affairs they were the true experts compared with the Americans .
3 Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner .
4 I mean you like the ordinary houses are , there 's no room and you could not bend the coffin with a person in it so they would have to take the window or the bedroom or wherever the corpse was
5 They were careful to keep the bull in the same field much of the time but sometimes they would have to move him and occasionally he would get out , so one always had to be wary .
6 If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day .
7 The dangers of dependence on rich men would be and were regularly pointed out : if the local parties were not themselves independent then they would have to turn to rich outsiders to fight their elections for them , as The Times pointed out in 1911 :
8 But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand .
9 The person gathering the data would first have to register the churches ; then they would have to go back and record the sculptures kept in each ; it would take another visit to catalogue the paintings ; another for the liturgical vestments , and so on .
10 Then they would have to sell the farm .
11 But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties .
12 If he brought her any more , then they would have to have a little talk .
13 Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive .
14 Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group .
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