Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas .
2 The failure of Britain 's membership of the European Monetary System should have led to a complete rethink of the Maastricht agreement to move to a single currency .
3 If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter .
4 That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this .
5 It was fitting , in the 50th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain , that the Association should have engaged in a full range of activities aimed at meeting its responsibilities towards former members of the Royal Air Force , both men and women .
6 It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me .
7 It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery .
8 He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively .
9 Administrative changes during the late nineteenth century should have resulted in a higher proportion of cases being reported .
10 It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder .
11 It was unfortunate for Virgin that in applying for ‘ exemption ’ to fly into America they should have walked into a simmering row between the American and British governments over the British refusal to allow PanAm to operate a third frequency across the Atlantic .
12 any authorised deductions should have occurred at an earlier stage than when the trustees received the monies ; when the monies came to the trust they had " come home " ; and 2. there was no heading under which the deduction could be made .
13 Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement .
14 Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain .
15 To the humans it must have sounded like a high-pitched chattering .
16 In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes !
17 But yesterday 's rain-hit showdown must have felt like a recurring nightmare for Faldo , too .
18 One must have served as a recumbent tombstone , since it has a slot at one end to hold a vertical cross .
19 I must have touched on a sensitive spot . ’
20 Originally this state must have led to a great deal of contradictory and ambivalent behaviour , with the bird being tugged in opposite directions by its opposing moods .
21 Er he , the family , must have came at a later date into Galashiels .
22 Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " .
23 ‘ Then he must have gone into a steep dive .
24 She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was .
25 ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive .
26 It was a hot day and Andy must have started with a distinct dehydration disadvantage .
27 Max 's conversion must have seemed like a second betrayal .
28 In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done .
29 ( d ) The supplier must have failed within a reasonable time of the request , to comply with it or to identify the person who supplied him with the product ( s. 2(3) ( c ) ) .
30 Whatever it is about the cuckoo 's gape that acts like a drug on the host 's nervous system , it must have originated as a genetic mutation .
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