Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use .
2 She should not have gone to that party .
3 He should not have lost with such a lead .
4 It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) .
5 But he should not have played since 1 October , when temporary clearance from the English Basket Ball Association expired .
6 If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions .
7 ‘ We should not have come at all . ’
8 She should not have come on this picnic .
9 Foreplay , for instance , can rightly be defined as an activity intended to culminate in sexual intercourse , which means an engaged couple should not have entered into this yet .
10 The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’
11 The question was one which must often have arisen in this period of extensive rebuilding : Did an altar require to be reconsecrated after it had been moved ?
12 Even though we should now have reached beyond this view there is still lingering uncertainty as to what the world of experience and thought is when perceived through a language such as BSL .
13 He should really have gone to that inquest .
14 But the rest of the act lacks this savagery and Posner should surely have aimed for more laughs earlier — at present the audience only relaxes , by the usual process of familiarity , around the half way mark .
15 ‘ He should n't have played with five men at the back / four in the middle / two up front / three in a boat ’
16 Her eyes were swollen — she should n't have wept like that , genuinely .
17 I should n't have known about that , should I ?
18 ‘ I think we might be safer with him , ’ Anne said , ‘ but I still think that fellow should n't have spoken like that to Mr Chamberlain . ’
19 ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all .
20 Without for one moment implying any impropriety , this last episode demonstrates how deliciously appropriate it is that Mr Wyatt should subsequently have struck up such a warm friendship with the world 's foremost collector of air miles .
21 If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain .
22 He should never have asked for three assistants , he realized .
23 ‘ She should never have suffered like that , ’ Carrie said .
24 It must certainly have looked like that , she realised .
25 A life science graduate already well experienced as a CRA , you should ideally have worked with antibacterial products .
26 Although close to the Piazza del Duomo and its hubbub of city life , and surrounded by cars , the Piazza Mercanti manages to preserve a little of the quiet that must occasionally have existed in Medieval , pre-car , times .
27 ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words .
28 Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level .
29 YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies .
30 You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will .
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