Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 2 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 3 | One would be if- I will not say the Labour Party but the extreme Labour Party — were to get so powerful that it would be a menace and we should have thrown on the other scale all that was moderate in the Liberal Party as well as our own Party . |
| 4 | I must have touched on a sensitive spot . ’ |
| 5 | There is no need to assume the writer of Genesis must have drawn on the Babylonian stories for his information . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll have to invite them into the vicarage and try and dissuade them , and then when they 're stubborn you 'll have to elaborate on the Christian concept of matrimony . ’ |
| 7 | Like that right , and she walked down the bus and this , the policeman said to the bus driver , oh you 'll have to hang on a wee minute because I have to speak to this woman here . |
| 8 | Any offensive operations which the United States might have to conduct on the Asiatic continent would probably avoid the Korean peninsula . |
| 9 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 10 | The Regent might have decided on a strategic retiral , for instance , to lure Edward northwards or westwards into a position favourable to the Scots , perhaps even as far up Tweed as the Kelso area , where the Warden 's force could be used to help defeat him . |
| 11 | They might have got on the wrong side of the man in black , but the Comrades made an awful lot of friends . |
| 12 | To examine the effect that railway building might have had on a self-contained and isolated rural community . |
| 13 | Without half a bottle of red wine inside me I might have slipped on the slimy breakwater , but I jump onto the stony beach and chase her along the shore . |
| 14 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |
| 15 | They could have lived on a tropic isle . |
| 16 | Kevin could have slept on the other side |
| 17 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 18 | The school 's head teacher , Diane Wilson says although they could have parked on the double yellow lines outside the ice rink , it would have been unfair to other vehicles as well as dangerous for the children . |
| 19 | The outcome may have turned on the closing arguments of Mr Lozano 's lawyer , Roy Black , who had previously defended William Kennedy Smith on charges of date rape . |
| 20 | Ideally , take another flight straight away so that you can master any difficulties you may have experienced on the first flight . |
| 21 | The diagnosis of chronic haemonchosis is more difficult because of the concurrent presence of poor nutrition and confirmation may have to depend on the gradual disappearance of the syndrome after anthelmintic treatment . |
| 22 | I may have embarked on the impossible , ’ Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on 9 November 1941 . |
| 23 | ‘ Men who , under any other pair of hands , would have remained on the injured list for three or four weeks , Tom would have fit again in three or four days … |
| 24 | At the very least , he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him . |
| 25 | I would have to say on a personal point of view , no cos I will deal quite |
| 26 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 27 | topographies will have become reduced in all the continents , erosion will have slowed up , and Only very mature , multicycled sediments would have accumulated on the continental areas . |
| 28 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 29 | Any one of those things would have been unusual in itself ; jointly , and in a humbler personage , it would have verged on the scandalous . |
| 30 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |