Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 2 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 3 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 4 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 5 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 6 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 7 | The thesis which should have brought about a major revolution in the study of religion , society and culture has instead been ignored , repudiated and contradicted ; the promised revolution has totally aborted and in general nothing remains in modern applied psychoanalysis of Totem and Taboo save an emasculated , diluted and vitiated remnant . |
| 8 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 9 | Carlo believes , and rightly so , that the British Government should have carried out an environmental study before the route was chosen , not afterwards . |
| 10 | Should have laughed all the more were n't ya ? |
| 11 | ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’ |
| 12 | One of the most important limitations on statutory safeguards is the insistence that , to qualify for most rights , you must have built up a specified period of continuous employment . |
| 13 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 14 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 15 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 16 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 17 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 18 | Someone must have torn out the right hand page . " |
| 19 | My own present stance and the position of the boy in the bed must have thrown up the embroidered , tasselled triangle hanging in blue , white and gold on the chapel wall . |
| 20 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 21 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 22 | During the subsequent exploration of New Zealand and Australia , Green was , in Cook 's words , ‘ indefatigable in making and calculating these observations [ for latitude and longitude ] which otherwise must have taken up a great deal of my time … |
| 23 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 24 | I 'll have to sort out a suitable bottle of wine to go with it . ’ |
| 25 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 26 | You 'll have heard already a whole range of opinion on their validity and usefulness . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll have to wait just a little while , Monsieur Gravellier , ’ one had said . |
| 28 | Their conduct amounted to insulting behaviour ( it insulted the women ! ) which may have occasioned a breach of the peace ( the partners of the women might have beaten up the two male lovers ) . |
| 29 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 30 | Had the right hon. Gentleman followed that example , he might have put forward a better case tonight . |