Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |
| 2 | Kwik Save also prosecuted for offering Danish blue cheese which was unfit because of its bacteria count , and having food on sale at temperatures of up to 20 degrees which should have been stored at a maximum of eight degrees centigrade . |
| 3 | Tax on the remaining £1,640 should have been charged at the basic rate of 25 per cent , which would make your tax bill £410 . |
| 4 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 5 | They should have been stopped at the block … ’ |
| 6 | From knowing the actual word that should have been written at a particular position in the input , a simple NAWK program was written which loaded the target word for each position into an associative array , then went through the Q100 lattice and printed out the recognition score assigned to each target word . |
| 7 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 8 | The executive checked the documents , and noted that the order should have been executed at a much lower price . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Er , but that assertion needs to be examined just a little more closely because the British government are not without blame in relation to this matter , er the issues er affecting these forthcoming elections should have been resolved at the Edinburgh summit during the presidency of the British government . |
| 11 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 12 | But a further complicating factor is that Watling Street , in its latest phases , points directly to the medieval East Gate , strongly suggesting that here also lay the later Roman gate , most probably on a different site to that belonging to the early defences ; if this is so , then the ditch must have been bridged at the gate . |
| 13 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 14 | The population of Easter Island could not have exceeded a few thousand , so a sizeable proportion of the men must have been employed at the quarry , carving likenesses of their deceased relatives . |
| 15 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 16 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 17 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 18 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 19 | The term covers such a wide array of diverse explanations that the survival might have been bought at the cost of radical change to its empirical and normative content . |
| 20 | But the tragedy is that while essential aspects of the project , such as the denuded hillsides and the transport problem , could have been seen at the start , in 1978 , they were largely ignored . |
| 21 | ‘ No person who shows that he has been tried by any competent court for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for any other criminal offence of which he could have been convicted at the trial for that offence save upon the order of a superior court made in the course of appeal proceedings relating to the conviction or acquittal ; … |
| 22 | Bowles was awarded a big cheque from a tabloid newspaper and if his own self-professed myths are a guideline it could have been squandered at the nearest bookies . |
| 23 | In my view , a number of the points raised in his petition are matters which could have been raised at the appeal . |
| 24 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 25 | I revised a relatively brief article in line with the referees ' comments only to receive a new set of comments which raised points that could have been made at the first submission . |
| 26 | I mean those horses offered at fifty to one could have been offered at a hundred to one and still the bookies would have finished up ahead , but of course those people those few people who 'd at fifty to one would have one twice as much . |
| 27 | The criticisms concerning the performance of the gearbox and the suspension could have been corrected at a Ford dealer . |
| 28 | ‘ The poison could have been added at the table just before Sir Thomas was poisoned , ’ ventured Heinrich hopefully . |
| 29 | Whether or not hydrocarbon generation continued during the Mesozoic , losses from Palaeozoic reservoirs during this period could have been trapped at the post-Carboniferous unconformity , for example by the Lias shales in the Wealden area . |
| 30 | Especially after all the hype about 15pt gap you 'd have thought that they 'd have been looking at the ‘ nearest rival trying to close the gap ! ! ’ . |