Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |
| 2 | Had it been a Saturday we should have stayed to see the cheese market . |
| 3 | He should have finished matching the chromosome analyses with the projections by now . |
| 4 | It is ironic , therefore , that Freud , the anti-religious father of psychoanalysis , should have chosen to use the term aggression as implicitly synonymous with evil and wickedness in his well-known and passionate indictment of his own species : |
| 5 | I AM staggered that Frances Bissell should have chosen to praise the Academy of Culinary Arts/Charles Heidsieck awards menu ( Caterer & Hotelkeeper , 22–28 August ) . |
| 6 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 7 | Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the competition is not clear , except that his brother-in-law and close friend was Sir Benjamin Hawes , who had framed the War Department 's accommodation schedule . |
| 8 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 9 | It is very understandable that those who wish for a federal Europe should have tried to undermine the credibility of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , since it attracted the names of over eighty Conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 10 | It is clear that , whether they succeeded or not , both the Criminal Law Revision Committee and the draftsman must have intended to give the word one meaning , which would be the same in the Act as in the committee 's report . |
| 11 | In this instance the gunner must have failed to heed the warning with his upper-rear turret . |
| 12 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
| 13 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 14 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 15 | The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain . |
| 16 | But , generally , one of the strengths of the book is its unusually current information , despite the time it must have taken to produce the book . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 18 | They 'll have to sell sell the farm and everything . |
| 19 | Ah no Heather I 'll throw them down there you 'll have to get lighted the fire try and some right . |
| 20 | That has whetted Graham 's appetite for more honours — and he accepts he 'll have to keep filling the Highbury trophy room if he is to guarantee his future at the club . |
| 21 | Operators have got another couple of weeks in which to take decisions on capacity for the summer , so they might not cut back as much as they erm , they might have done had the war still been ongoing , so we should still have plenty of holidays available this summer . |
| 22 | Conceivably ( although I would reserve the point ) in an extreme case the court might have to decline to try the issues . |
| 23 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 24 | She had initially thought he might have come to reclaim the Madam 's brothel — in which case he was going to have a mysterious and fatal accident . |
| 25 | Designed as an ‘ everyman 's ’ aeroplane , the venture might have succeeded had the market economy at the time been more buoyant . |
| 26 | Chelsea might have won had the ball not kept turning into a Mexican bean at Kerry Dixon 's feet . |
| 27 | Kaifu 's government had been forced on Sept. 30 to abandon plans for a major constitutional reform which might have helped to end the LDP 's factional in-fighting . |
| 28 | More body to the English String Orchestra ( an idiosyncratic name , given all the wind and other instruments which take part ) might have helped to throw the piece into clearer focus , but , in the final Presto — a rapid perpetuum mobile — they are at least all precise . |
| 29 | AN INDIAN journalist yesterday accused his editor of suppressing information that might have helped to identify the recipients of millions of dollars in bribes allegedly paid to Indian officials by the Bofors armaments company , a scandal which has caused acute embarrassment to Rajiv Gandhi 's government . |
| 30 | Now police believe a National register of DNA samples might have helped catch the man , but they admit there are problems . |