Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant .
32 The modernisation and enlargement should have ensured a firm foundation for Wight 's business ; however , within a decade he went bankrupt , the ownership of the mill passing to Rev William Knight .
33 That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was .
34 By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve .
35 It should have determined the relative usefulness of the text , suggested the best way of tackling it and provided you with an impression of the scholarly stature and historiographical viewpoint of the book .
36 But it does not follow , as Strawson asserts that it does , that we should have to take an objective attitude to all behaviour just like the attitude we now take to behaviour we call abnormal .
37 I should have to examine the whole state of the law as to , and the history of the subject of , consideration , which , I need hardly say , I do not propose to do .
38 " You should have joined the diplomatic service !
39 So the coalition should have given a reasoned reply , welcoming the offer to withdraw and saying that all the other issues are open for discussion once the withdrawal has taken place and a cease-fire is in operation .
40 Earlier , Alex Aitken , of the Conservative Collegiate Forum , was loudly applauded when he said it was ‘ intolerable ’ that taxpayers should have to fund the left-wing propaganda of the NUS .
41 Significantly , the package features a novel ‘ tutorial ’ : when it is completed , the user should have computerised the financial side of the business , and hopefully , learned to deal with all ‘ financial ’ events that happen in business from opening balances , through stopped or bounced cheques to journals .
42 By that time , the RECs should have developed a better understanding of the market , and pricing policies to suit .
43 I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms .
44 They should have penetrated his disguise and they should have alerted the Royal guards and the Fiana and every sorcerer in the Palace so that he could be driven out .
45 I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing .
46 4. ( a ) On MacDonald 's character you should have indicated the telling phrase " characteristic self-pity " and indicated the implications of the penultimate paragraph .
47 Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that .
48 Chaos now seemed poised to threaten the system from inside and without , and it is almost inevitable that the term ‘ civvy ’ should have become a derogatory reference .
49 ‘ It should have become an I Tatti of modern French art ’
50 Though I should have discovered a tolerable way , ’ she said , with force and finality .
51 unc After you have studied the see-saw problems you should have discovered an important rule about how to keep an equation in balance .
52 The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts .
53 You should have discovered the following facts .
54 A few moments later , you should have converted a printed page into a text file you can load into your word processor .
55 After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago .
56 But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is !
57 The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds .
58 ‘ All right , I sprained my wrist , ’ Preston admitted , ‘ but you should have seen the other bloke . ’
59 ‘ You should have seen the smug self satisfaction on the faces of those bitches as they lined up to kiss me , ’ she rasped .
60 You should have seen the old pageants .
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