Example sentences of "would have [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , Strawson also draws a stronger conclusion from it — the conclusion that , since a theory of the determination of action is true now if it is true at all , such a theory would have to be compatible with our distinction between behaviour towards which reactive attitudes are appropriate , and behaviour demanding an objective response .
2 ‘ There would have to be similar moves from the counties and I do n't think that is very likely .
3 Since the accommodation would be occupied all year round , the standard would have to be similar to that required for permanent occupation .
4 Such reduction would have to be necessary because of a reduction in the school 's capacity to accommodate pupils .
5 If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ .
6 There was also the prospect of more poetry although " They would have to be new poems in a new idiom " .
7 Oh , heavens , she panicked , and knew then that her impersonation would have to be good — Ven Gajdusek was nobody 's fool .
8 In terms of users , the system would have to be uncommon in some respect .
9 And I take it it would have to be infrared .
10 For Sam 's sake , she would have to be pleasant to — to —
11 Farmers would have to be 100 per cent accurate in the identification system to avoid losing out on premium payments .
12 Thus , in order to fully appreciate Distant Voices , Still Lives , we would have to be familiar with the work of Lowry , Lawrence , Larkin et al — and to fully appreciate their work in turn demands familiarity with numerous other texts and artists , and so it goes on .
13 At densities of 120 persons per acre it was estimated that between 25 per cent and 30 per cent of the population would have to be flat dwellers .
14 A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005 .
15 I freely admit that , following that , the Government have been unwilling to introduce other proposals because they feel that they would have to be enforceable , workable and acceptable to a majority of hon. Members .
16 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 .
17 On the analogy of arbitration law , partiality would have to be actual bias , and not conflicts of interest or apparent lack of independence : see Mustill and Boyd , p249 .
18 The search would have to be illegal and secret — the sort of operation she knew Urquhart 's organisation carried out regularly under the generous blanket of ‘ national security ’ .
19 Logically , we would not , but the reply would have to be that given the processing mechanisms we seem to have , it would not be practically possible .
20 ‘ It would have to be that , would n't it ? ’
21 If they were to be overthrown , the justification would have to be overwhelming .
22 And after his heroics , Warne said : ‘ It would have to be close to the best I 've ever bowled .
23 Richardson said : ‘ When we won the title at Highbury , George Graham drummed it into us that we would have to be resilient and consistent .
24 It would have to be renewed as soon as the the nationalization was prepared to go , the government took over .
25 To mean that an invoice issued on 15 June would have to be due no later than 15 July .
26 To stand against the old order , the new national States would have to be strong — ‘ The very first conditions of national existence ( are ) large numbers and compactness of territory , ’ along with resources , ability and a favourable social organization .
27 In 1982 the Arabs relented , but said that ( a ) they needed the cover of an ‘ international conference ’ and ( b ) that Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation would have to be present , too .
28 McKinsey said it was dealing directly with Information Consulting on the transaction but the latter would have to be relieved of an option owned by Saatchi before any definitive pact .
29 For the pulsar to move 18' from the apparent centre of the SNR in this time its proper motion would have to be 0.06 yr -1 .
30 The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale .
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