Example sentences of "should have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 2 | The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten . |
| 3 | Prima facie , the development of a capital-goods sector should have created a vested interest in innovation in the consumer-goods industries , as well as a major new outlet for independent inventors of production machinery . |
| 4 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 5 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ye should have poured a whole bottle of lysol down it before me . ’ |
| 7 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 8 | Applicants seeking credits for areas of study , for Sections of the certificate level areas C1 or C2 , or for elements from within an area of study at diploma level must submit their application to the HCIMA and should have received a favourable decision prior to enrolment on a programme or area of study . |
| 9 | All ( 1991 ) Group members should have received a free copy . |
| 10 | ‘ You should have shut the stable door so the damn horse do n't bolt . ’ |
| 11 | We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial . |
| 12 | A secure keyboard technique is essential , and all students , even those for whom piano is second instrument , should have reached a standard equivalent to Grade VII of the Associated Board examinations . |
| 13 | Admission procedures for the BMus in Musical Technology are also noted in the Admissions section : students should have reached a standard equivalent to Grade VII of the Associated Board examinations in any recognised instrument . |
| 14 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 15 | Probably should have gone the other way into town but |
| 16 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 17 | She should have accepted a comfortable change for the better . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | " You should have joined the diplomatic service ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 4. ( a ) On MacDonald 's character you should have indicated the telling phrase " characteristic self-pity " and indicated the implications of the penultimate paragraph . |
| 30 | Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that . |