Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 2 | It is quite understandable that contemporaries , whatever their sympathies , should have viewed the Spanish Civil War in such cosmic terms . |
| 3 | By now John should have become the first 40-year-old to break four minutes for the mile . |
| 4 | It is ironic that office building should have become the latest indirect victims of IRA terrorism through increased insurance premiums because , historically , the record of claims made by landlords or tenants has been extremely good . |
| 5 | It is hardly surprising that the reign of Napoleon I , an era of warfare on an unprecedented scale , should have seen the first tentative moves in this direction . |
| 6 | Mr Alan Bleasdale , author of the Channel Four serial GBH , which the four jurors say should have won the best serial prize , joined the row , saying he wanted to share the award . |
| 7 | A hard sweep of his right hand , the edge smashing into the big man 's neck , should have felled the Latin American , but hidden beneath his poncho he wore a studded leather collar . |
| 8 | Lucy Lane interrupted , authority in her voice : ‘ Before we move on , others of you must have seen the safe open from time to time ; it would be useful if we could establish how long the books have been there . ’ |
| 9 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 10 | I am writing to warn other dog owners of the potential hazard of the rape plant ( you 'll have noticed the bright yellow flowers now covering so many fields ) . |
| 11 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 12 | In these recessionary times , and with USA rugby currently without a major sponsor , the airing of ITV 's excellent programmes might have stirred the American general public 's interest in rugby . |
| 13 | Either of two sets of conditions might have brought the Spanish Civil War to a very different end : an immediate rallying of support from the Republic 's fellow democracies , or Soviet assistance for a broad-based , revolutionary war rather than a sectarian , conventional one . |
| 14 | But it must be remembered that the choral music of Greek tragedy , now lost , might have conveyed the requisite metaphysical depth . |
| 15 | Livings thought it might have lacked the English music-hall style of comedy he wished to capture . |
| 16 | Without this revival before 1914 it is difficult to see how the parry could have survived the ten turbulent years that followed . |
| 17 | Built with folding wings ( originally to enable it to be hidden in caves ) , had the mighty carrier Shinano survived long enough , Japan could have fielded the first carrier-based jet strike force with Kitsukas ! |
| 18 | But who could have foreseen the amazing house-price boom of 1987 and 1988 ? |
| 19 | Doctors hardly counted till after 1850 and no one could have foreseen the later social power of lawyers . |
| 20 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 21 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 22 | Yes , you could have seen the 1916 Russian epic , King Vidor 's 1955 version with Henry Fonda and Audrey Hepburn , Granada TV 's 1963 Emmy winner , Sergei Bondartchuk 's seven hour effort of 1964 , and in 1972 Rupert Davies and Anthony Hopkins in the BBC version . |
| 23 | Time and again between then and the UN deadline of January 15th , he could have averted the allied counter-offensive that followed . |
| 24 | RNA instability may have caused the low level expression of protein , so we generated a deletion mutant that eliminated 0.5 kb of 3' untranslated sequences of the cDNA ( Figure 3b , plasmid IV ) . |
| 25 | One such sub-king was the Beornhaeth who campaigned with Ecgfrith against the Picts in the early 670s ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) ( see below , p. 100 ) , and whose territory may have adjoined the southern Pictish frontier . |
| 26 | Where technology may have reduced the minimum efficient scale within factories , the creation of corporate-wide systems of communication and control have served in many instances to increase the minimum efficient scale of the enterprise as a whole . |
| 27 | The education which accompanied — or indeed may have preceded the new economic order made family planning thinkable ( Banks 1981 ) . |
| 28 | For them to give you the service you want they need to know about your ideas and any suggestions and comments you may have to ensure the best possible service . |
| 29 | The adult parent , usually the mother , may have provided the main domestic support for a working son or daughter over many years . |
| 30 | A husband and wife duo of lawyers-turned-smallholders may have founded the British Green Party , but there were no lawyers on the list , or surgeons , or stockbrokers ; or , for that matter , plumbers or shop stewards . |