Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 2 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 3 | The question whether we should have proceeded with the Gulf war is another issue , but I remind the House of the repeated statements by my right hon. Friend , President Bush and others as to the limited purpose of that operation . |
| 4 | And of course another very clear example of the overlap between domestic concerns and international concerns is Maastricht and the great debate that 's gone on in Britain about whether or not we should have agreed to the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 5 | But — you must have escaped from the TARDIS ? ’ |
| 6 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 7 | Some evidence that this must have happened along the Chiswick banks of the river , was uncovered during the construction of the London & South Western railway line , in the nineteenth century , which involved the need to make a deep cutting not far from what became known as Gunnersbury Station . |
| 8 | Apart from those who died in conflict many of the Britons must have fled into the Weald , or further west , but the idea of a mass exodus is probably rather overstretched . |
| 9 | The names of the borrowers indicate that this book must have belonged to the Oa school and the few addresses given were Glenastle , Stremnish and Kinnabus , would seem to confirm this . |
| 10 | About the time of the pericentric inversion we can be less certain , although it must have occurred after the ZNF cluster duplication event . |
| 11 | A look back at the history of the Hinkley site must have added to the CEGB 's optimism . |
| 12 | No matter what reservations Churchill might have entertained about the Atlantic Charter and whether or not freedom was meant to apply to colonial territories , the unworthiness of France to return to Indochina was soon to become one of Roosevelt 's fixed ideas on colonialism and an issue that would bedevil relations between all the Allied powers in Southeast Asia with the possible and ironic exception of the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Although Beckenham U.D.C. had powers to construct a tramway system , which they might have leased to the B.E.T. , and had built a power station in Churchfields Road , they now had second thoughts about tramways and were thinking in terms of permitting the B.E.T . |
| 14 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 15 | In Glasgow he had picked up many of the skills that a more highly-born politician might have acquired in the Oxford Union or at the Bar , but skills that were very different in appearance . |
| 16 | Now VAT men have earned an unfortunate reputation for not exactly being the sort who might have graduated from the Lucy Clayton school for charm and social deportment . |
| 17 | Whatever the critics say it seems a lot of people will be picking up a copy just to see what might have happened to the De Winters . |
| 18 | Bearing in mind that after the stinginess of Armadale he had gone to the house of this ‘ hearty welcome ’ , and had been pleased with ‘ a numerous and cheerful company ’ — why did Boswell prove less forthcoming than one might have expected about the Mackinnons ? |
| 19 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 20 | Heyerdahl , five companions and a sulky parrot had drifted 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft to prove Heyerdahl 's theory that South American people could have travelled across the Pacific to become the ancestors of the Polynesian islanders . |
| 21 | As Smart 's editors have shown , the wide range of reference would easily be available within the compass of a few standard books , which he knew and could have obtained in the Bethnal Green asylum . |
| 22 | Autonomic neuropathy could have contributed to the QT interval abnormalities and increased mortality noted by Day and colleagues . |
| 23 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 24 | " You could have stayed in the Nile Hotel . |
| 25 | There is no way that Andropulos could have learnt aboard the Ariadne of the existence of those bombs . |
| 26 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 27 | He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening . |
| 28 | When your job ends , you may have to return to the UK . |
| 29 | A taxpayer may have emigrated to the Channel Islands . |
| 30 | THE Oval Office may be occupied by a self-confessed non-inhaler ; half the members of the cabinet may have marched against the Vietnam war ; and the first and second ladies may spend their spare time grooving to the Grateful Dead . |