Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |
2 | I always think I should have wrote written a book |
3 | Had it been a Saturday we should have stayed to see the cheese market . |
4 | He should have finished matching the chromosome analyses with the projections by now . |
5 | It is ironic , therefore , that Freud , the anti-religious father of psychoanalysis , should have chosen to use the term aggression as implicitly synonymous with evil and wickedness in his well-known and passionate indictment of his own species : |
6 | I AM staggered that Frances Bissell should have chosen to praise the Academy of Culinary Arts/Charles Heidsieck awards menu ( Caterer & Hotelkeeper , 22–28 August ) . |
7 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
8 | Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the competition is not clear , except that his brother-in-law and close friend was Sir Benjamin Hawes , who had framed the War Department 's accommodation schedule . |
9 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
10 | It is curious and yet inevitable that you , of all people , should have dared write a piece in the NewSS claiming to shed crocodile tears for the alleged disunity among , or between , the opportunistically ‘ revived ’ banners of the ARA and the ANL . |
11 | It is very understandable that those who wish for a federal Europe should have tried to undermine the credibility of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , since it attracted the names of over eighty Conservative Members of Parliament . |
12 | Damn ; should have thought to bring a torch , too . |
13 | It is clear that , whether they succeeded or not , both the Criminal Law Revision Committee and the draftsman must have intended to give the word one meaning , which would be the same in the Act as in the committee 's report . |
14 | This point means that the accused must have intended to insult a female . |
15 | Well he must have think got a lot of good customer here |
16 | In this instance the gunner must have failed to heed the warning with his upper-rear turret . |
17 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
18 | Somebody must have forgotten to lock a window one night , and designers had managed to get in . |
19 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
20 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
21 | She must have had to pay a bit for that . |
22 | The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain . |
23 | But , generally , one of the strengths of the book is its unusually current information , despite the time it must have taken to produce the book . |
24 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
25 | They 'll have to sell sell the farm and everything . |
26 | Ah no Heather I 'll throw them down there you 'll have to get lighted the fire try and some right . |
27 | That has whetted Graham 's appetite for more honours — and he accepts he 'll have to keep filling the Highbury trophy room if he is to guarantee his future at the club . |
28 | At its top a small light gave a spacious feeling as the early ages might have felt entering a mosque or domed basilica . |
29 | Operators have got another couple of weeks in which to take decisions on capacity for the summer , so they might not cut back as much as they erm , they might have done had the war still been ongoing , so we should still have plenty of holidays available this summer . |
30 | Conceivably ( although I would reserve the point ) in an extreme case the court might have to decline to try the issues . |