Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
| 2 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 3 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
| 4 | He should have returned to the open prison on the tenth of August . |
| 5 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 6 | Traherne must have conformed to the religious requirements of the Commonwealth . |
| 7 | Something very funny must have happened to the hon. Member for Dagenham on his way to the Chamber . |
| 8 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 9 | Though a reconsecrated Chad was shortly afterwards appointed bishop of Lichfield with Oswiu 's consent , this must have seemed to the northern king a high-handed way for the new archbishop to act . |
| 10 | And it is hard to ignore the significance of Smith 's Crisps , whose many non-meat flavours must have appealed to the young Morrissey . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's possible that she might have gone to the young agricultural student — Farrel — who was here recently . |
| 12 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 13 | With hindsight , he says , he can see the deficiencies in County 's and NatWest 's structure that might have contributed to the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 14 | Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same . |
| 15 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
| 16 | Whereas once the working class might have looked to the middle classes for an example of probity and upright behaviour , now the middle classes looked to the working class as the custodians of vanishing tradition and folk culture . |
| 17 | By constantly changing its plans , from one type of waste disposal to another , the organization lost any claim it might have had to the scientific high ground . |
| 18 | Grainne was no longer quite sure that they were real , for the Castle seemed to her to be so brimful of lingering emotions and the resonances of the past that the footsteps might have belonged to the distant past , or the far-off future , or to a world outside Ireland altogether . |
| 19 | Mustelids very like modern stoats and weasels are the most common carnivores at Westbury ( apart from the cave bear which was probably only partly carnivorous anyway ) and they could have contributed to the small mammal faunas at Westbury . |
| 20 | At least two other specific developments could have contributed to the present sea-bird problem . |
| 21 | The report suggested that this was the reverse of the settings which would be expected and that this could have contributed to the homing errors . |
| 22 | This was important to the early Christians because they faced the charges that Jesus was not really dead when he was taken down from the cross and that , even if he was , the women could have gone to the wrong tomb on the Sunday morning . |
| 23 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 24 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 25 | If the trial judge dismissed the petitioner 's action either on the compromise issue or on the misconduct issue , then the petitioner could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 26 | Erm , you could have got to the close a little bit earlier , but then it , I think you were just finding your words , that was good , well done . |
| 27 | ‘ Now ’ , he said , ‘ I could have spoken to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed land before me . ’ |
| 28 | But then , knowing you , you 'd have stuck to the proper dosage . |
| 29 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 30 | In other words , the stress forces of the Earth , in particular stresses brought about by severe changes in climate , and the changing chemical nature of the surface , may have contributed to the great expansion , and occasional contraction , of species within narrow phyla that evolved from the recognizable solid life in the oceans ( oceanic life started , probably , in the Algonkian period , somewhere between 670 million and 600 million years ago ) . |