Example sentences of "he would have to [be] " in BNC.

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1 As well as negotiating from strength , Rank had a realistic perception of just how tough he would have to be .
2 McLeish reflected uncomfortably that he would have to be very circumspect in his dealings with Catherine , with this beady-eyed observer around the place .
3 He also knew that if Clasper was to be toppled from his influential position as plant convener — which was essential to the long term recovery of the plant — he would have to be seen to be toppled by his own members , acting in their own interests .
4 He would have to be careful .
5 ‘ Well , he would have to be , would n't he ? because it was in the papers only last week that one of them was sent along the line to Durham for fighting .
6 In time he too would recruit and form an IRB circle there , but he would have to be careful ; Castlebar was a garrison town .
7 He would have to be very , very careful .
8 This time he would have to be more subtle .
9 Attention would only be conditionally offered to Ollie if Stan was in the room , and if the family were enjoying a quiet cuddle with Stan , he would have to be rejected in favour of Ollie if he appeared .
10 He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written .
11 The Tykes switched from Pakistan 's Aqib Javed because he would have to be given a two-year contract under TCCB rules while 21-year-old Benjamin could sign for a year .
12 He would have to be prepared for Godolphin 's wrath .
13 He was a bully , he flew into rages , but to do what Albert believed he had done he would have to be wicked , and Carrie did n't think he was that .
14 They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped .
15 He would have to be very careful how he handled his bride , for she had been injured enough .
16 Since it is impossible to communicate with him to reassure him he would have to be kept sedated .
17 He realised with a sense of desperation that he would have to be twice as cunning as his wife if he was to recover that which she had taken from him .
18 He would have to be blind not to have noticed that something in Cora-Beth 's manner towards him had changed ; that the looks she sometimes gave him were no longer open and friendly but questioning , as if she expected , or was hoping for , something more .
19 He would have to be fast , getting away .
20 He would have to be audacious .
21 He would have to be very careful , only going out after dusk when he could do some jobs for other people in exchange for a little food .
22 For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch .
23 As indeed he would have to be .
24 He would have to be faced tomorrow .
25 She did n't want to see him although she knew perfectly well that he would have to be faced .
26 He would have to be stopped .
27 Louis the German was forced to withdraw : he would have to be satisfied with his Bavarian regnum .
28 Before rehearsals started , he got himself in trim by running every day , knowing that he would have to be ultra-fit for each night 's three-hour performance , appearing on stage for almost every minute of it .
29 But if he really loved her he would have to be prepared to let her go .
30 He would have to be seen a.s.a.p. , and would have to come up with a satisfactory explanation of exactly why and when he 'd left The Randolph .
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