Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In any case , the track record of computer applications — missed cutover dates , greater costs , fewer benefits , and designs which seem to be very different from that promised — should have led to reduced salaries and status , not the opposite .
2 he should have gone to private school should n't he , really but then
3 I should have gone to medical school . ’
4 If there is a shortfall of Catholic school provision in an area , it has never been accepted that Catholic pupils should have to go to non-Catholic schools .
5 Sometimes she fell into their style — endless crisis-discussions and grumbling about how other members of the family had behaved , or should have behaved to each other .
6 A hundred years from now , the march of the physical sciences — oh , Albé , you should have talked to old Erasmus Darwin about that subject !
7 Some mammalian families must have migrated to that continent and evolved there in isolation from the rest of the world .
8 Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use .
9 And he must have gone to those churches for the first time .
10 Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period .
11 She had smelly white plastic miniskirts with heavy steel chain belts that must have belonged to some fetishist , and acrylic ribbed halter-tops clinging to her almost concave tits .
12 Plainly , since he had been aware that she had ‘ run away ’ from him , he must have still been in Prague that morning , and must have returned to that hotel suite some time after she 'd left .
13 Do n't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors ; before you know where you are it 'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory .
14 I suppose I 'll have to go to this Sheldrake man for my pigs . ’
15 ‘ You see , if I decide I ca n't trust you , I 'll have to resort to certain measures . ’
16 Run out of ammo while on the ground and you 'll have to resort to flying kicks .
17 as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position .
18 You 'll have to speak to that boy again today .
19 And then if er you want a so solicitor with you on that day we 'll have to come to some arrangement with you privately about the costs .
20 They also want to assess more fully the damage that the debacle might have done to long-term customer confidence in Ferranti .
21 Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids .
22 The latter option was the more frequently adopted , so that it became very difficult to evaluate the contribution , if any , that ERDF expenditure might have made to economic development .
23 I think , even more frightening the fact that she might have succumbed to this chap .
24 Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism .
25 If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action .
26 And Lulach and Bishop Malduin , sitting side by side , might have belonged to different worlds : the Bishop grave and faintly uneasy , his eyes flickering across the table to the men of York and Durham and Bamburgh whom he must know so well .
27 Yeah but I do n't see how that might have to relate to national curriculum er
28 This inclination today is 5.15° , and no convincing explanation has yet been found of how the inclination could have increased to this value from about 0° 4600 Ma ago .
29 I thought of its maker ; Lawrence the animal ; Lawrence the master craftsman ; such an amalgam , so potent ; take away the magic of hand and eye — no replica of the key ; take away the brute — no key to replicate , for only a brute could have done to Holy Harding what Lawrence did to Holy Harding — Holy Harding , school monitor , altar boy , server in the Cathedral of ix …
30 Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’
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