Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You should have had a tough education . |
| 32 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
| 33 | Encamped for long spells in the Lansdowne territory Ballymena should have had a comfortable interval lead but McAleese uncharacteristically missed a penalty at either end of the first half . |
| 34 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 35 | At the very least , he should have had a local policeman with him . |
| 36 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 37 | I was not told , when we left , that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen . |
| 38 | Days before the trading figures were due , when it should have recommended a long position , the firm was likely to recommend going short . |
| 39 | In that particular case , the Community should have negotiated a common fisheries policy by the end of 1978 , by virtue of the 1972 Act of Accession . |
| 40 | On the third default , the Institute says , the trader should have to pay a refundable bond , which would be forfeited if there was a further default within 12 months . |
| 41 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 42 | The legislative programme should have included a criminal justice Bill to prohibit conviction on confession evidence alone , to bring some consistency into a chaotic sentencing policy and to give statutory rights to the victims of crime . |
| 43 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 44 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 45 | To qualify for an ultra race , runners must have completed a full marathon in under three hours 30 minutes . |
| 46 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 47 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 48 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 49 | erm I think the city must have become a real mess , there were stores piled up everywhere , wood , coal , corn , often I think they had to build sort of , something to hold the corn , there 's a lot of the evidence for that in the college accounts certainly . |
| 50 | And it should be said that , at least outwardly , Murphy and his men retained their charm and their good humour throughout what must have become a harrowing experience . |
| 51 | On the night of Good Friday , the apostles must have felt a painful sense of loss . |
| 52 | At Charlton Mackerell ( right ) the carver must have mistaken a lighted candle for a flower in the bottom corner , when copying from a book |
| 53 | Though his extravagance was well rewarded , it must have placed a severe strain on the house 's finances . |
| 54 | The loss of territorial control , with minority Russian populations in so many of the new countries , must have created a great deal of resentment , again not unlike Germany after World War l . |
| 55 | I really felt she had gone too far ; the book must have cost a small fortune . |
| 56 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
| 57 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 58 | One early candidate , Henry Plough in 1517 , was simply appointed ; the opinion of the local priest — and , one assumes , of the local community — must have played a large part in most recommendations . |
| 59 | This group must have exerted a considerable attraction , enough to account for the growth of a small community containing shops , a bakery and blacksmiths . |
| 60 | We must have touched a little spot there I think Stan . |