Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order . |
| 2 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 3 | These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 . |
| 4 | By that time , the RECs should have developed a better understanding of the market , and pricing policies to suit . |
| 5 | What emerged was that a well-diversified portfolio ( or in this case a well diversified fund ) should have eliminated the greater part of non-market risk . |
| 6 | There I should have welcomed a faster tempo both for the waltz of the first half , and for the galop of the second , both of them evoking the atmosphere of the fairground as a tenth birthday tribute to the Fairfield Hall in Croydon . |
| 7 | But Bowe believes Lewis should have had a harder warm-up than Dixon , who was outweighed by nearly two stone and was knocked down twice in a ten-rounder five weeks ago . |
| 8 | Judith Cook should have had an easier job in her pamphlet against water privatisation , for it 's British people themselves , in the near future , who will suffer . |
| 9 | ‘ Should have picked a quieter place to meet , ’ he chuckles . |
| 10 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 11 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 12 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 13 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 14 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 15 | This independence and opportunity for large profit must have been the most important distinction between riches and grinding poverty and must have played a greater part in creating the economic hierarchy of rural society than any other factor . |
| 16 | But maybe they should n't have — she must have known a better life before this , and what right had they to claim her as their own without having brought her up ? |
| 17 | The cat must have got a bigger shock . |
| 18 | he more or less sort of said well I 'll have to have a cheaper car . |
| 19 | B-R has told Margaret Wilkinson that if she wants to go by rail she 'll have to get a narrower wheelchair . |
| 20 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 21 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 22 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 23 | Mrs Ross ’ s condition had deteriorated ; she had fallen out of bed and it seemed she might have suffered a further stroke . |
| 24 | I do not blame the Opposition for not understanding the issues as fully as we might hope , but , given their new-found support and desire for everything European , I thought that they might have developed a better understanding . |
| 25 | Had we our Annuall Parliaments Settled , the Negative Voice Restrained , a Committee of Lords and Commons to be the Privy-Council , no Officers of the King to serve in Parliament , the Revenue Appropriated , all Eminent Offices had upon good Behaviour and Election of Members to Parliament secured , the Work might have deserved a better Character " . |
| 26 | So there were two key consequences ; one was that universities came to see that planning of such change might have produced a better result : the other that vengeful dons denied Mrs Thatcher her honorary degree from Oxford . |
| 27 | On the other hand , there were steps which de Gaulle might have taken in 1944 – 46 — steps which might have produced a better outcome on the ( to him ) all-important issue of the constitution and might also have bolstered his popularity . |
| 28 | Unlike the fourth floor of Lloyd 's , it has a purpose-built trading floor , but the exchange might have to sign a longer lease than it needs . |
| 29 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 30 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |