Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education . |
| 2 | Gunn argues that Nina should have gone through a second , refurbishing phase , to bring it in line with the German accelerator , Desy . |
| 3 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 4 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
| 5 | Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare . |
| 6 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 7 | Maybe they should have collaborated on a book , instead of writing separate accounts . |
| 8 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 9 | Gorbachev paid warm tribute to Dubcek , saying his Czechoslovak reforms should have served as a model to the Communist world . |
| 10 | This should have served as an encouragement to the authorities to develop this important aspect of community care . |
| 11 | The prosecution should have applied to a judge of the Central Criminal Court to revoke bail and then if bail was granted again , to impose the condition of medical examination required by the statute . |
| 12 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 13 | At a more mature stage , the increase in sales volume should have resulted in a decline in investment intensity , while profit and ROI will increase if the investment is successful . |
| 14 | The Minister should have started with an agreement on terms and conditions relating to employment protection and dealt with the other aspects afterwards . |
| 15 | And by 1994 , work should have started on a development which will transform the bus station site . |
| 16 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 17 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 18 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
| 19 | They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin . |
| 20 | An exasperated Josh Gifford claimed — with much justification — that ‘ I should have won by a furlong . |
| 21 | Mind you Oxford should have won by an avalanche . |
| 22 | It might be supposed , however , that Francis Grant , as a newcomer to military life , should have entered as an ensign rather than as second-in-command of the company in question . |
| 23 | The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount . |
| 24 | ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie . |
| 25 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |
| 26 | It is ironic that this should have happened under a Government so strongly committed to decentralisation , privatisation and the reduction of the role of the state . |
| 27 | It annoyed her intensely that she should have thought for a moment that the dreadful feeling she 'd experienced when he 'd told her he had an engagement was jealousy . |
| 28 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 29 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 30 | Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute . |