Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also admits he should have prevented goals in earlier games against Sheffield United and Arsenal . |
| 2 | Bartocci should have noticed details like that , thought Zen . |
| 3 | It is not surprising that in the mid-fourth century the shape of the Pyramids should have influenced the architecture of an otherwise Greek building like the Mausoleum at Halikarnassus ; or that the cult of the Egyptian Isis should have had worshippers at fourth-century Athens ( Tod 189 , line 44 and p. 178 ) . |
| 4 | She should have taken precautions against such a mishap . |
| 5 | What reserves of strength and intellect she must have to remember details like that ! |
| 6 | Ken Veysey must have had nightmares about this on Saturday night . |
| 7 | In public relations you 'll have to make friends with this powerful force and master it . |
| 8 | well you might have heard stories about elderly people going out shopping in the middle of the night . |
| 9 | And this is quite a lengthy procedure , and you might have made mistakes at all sorts of different point . |
| 10 | A Gaullist movement might have worked wonders in 1945 or 1946 , but by 1947 de Gaulle 's political opponents were firmly entrenched in power . |
| 11 | William Spycer of Dallington might have cherished visions of instant fortune when he leased the site of the projected Panningridge furnace , but they soon faded , and , having assigned his interest to the wealthy Sir Henry Sidney , he carted stone , and lime for the constructors ; if his personal property was limited to the £3 on which he was taxed , he was under capitalised . |
| 12 | Police appealed to shopkeepers in area who might have sold items to two men with Liverpool accents in week before and after April 27 when couple disappeared . |
| 13 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |
| 14 | It believes the site would have produced fuel at prices that could have sustained jobs in local power stations , rather than forcing them to rely on imported coal . |
| 15 | I know nothing about him , she thought , nothing at all ; he could have robbed banks for all I know . |
| 16 | This could have provided opportunities for structural change and review . |
| 17 | I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune . |
| 18 | Nor can we say that Megarians could have got nationals of other states to act as middlemen . |
| 19 | Today I suppose he 'd have written variations on Happy Birthday , but this is more fun . |
| 20 | Some ceramic experts used to say : ‘ You 'd have to run factories like sterile wards of a hospital to be totally rid of specking . ’ |
| 21 | In recent weeks you may have noticed groups of young , fresh-faced , well-dressed visitors being escorted round the site by by directors . |
| 22 | Because of this subjects may have ignored memories of mundane situations and concentrated instead on recalling the ones which they remembered as risky . |
| 23 | You may have heard reports of American Indian hunters , for example , who are able to follow prey for long distances by using their senses , particularly the sense of smell . |
| 24 | You may have to consult colleagues about this . |
| 25 | The survey was linked to a distance learning package accredited for postgraduate allowance , and this may have encouraged practitioners with varying degrees of expertise in asthma management to participate . |
| 26 | They may have worked years for long hours in restaurants . |
| 27 | or being older he may have remembered times before that . |
| 28 | We may have mixed feelings about scientific triumphs which have included nuclear weapons as well as electric light but we can not deny the comprehensive debt we owe to the emergence of scientific method . |
| 29 | As well as cult buildings , the sacred enclosure may have contained altars of various shapes , as shown on the Gypsades Rhyton , and decorated with plaster and paint , as shown on the Agia Triadha sarcophagus . |
| 30 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |