Example sentences of "should have [verb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Gorbachev paid warm tribute to Dubcek , saying his Czechoslovak reforms should have served as a model to the Communist world .
2 This should have served as an encouragement to the authorities to develop this important aspect of community care .
3 It might be supposed , however , that Francis Grant , as a newcomer to military life , should have entered as an ensign rather than as second-in-command of the company in question .
4 Given the possibility for agreement , albeit confused and for different reasons , from both left and right , legislation to enforce a National Curriculum should have come as no surprise to the educational world .
5 Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat .
6 So it should have come as no surprise that IBM , which can no longer afford to squander money on things that only might come good , has decided to stop financing Supercomputing Systems .
7 She realised that she was much too aware of him , but this should have come as no surprise .
8 ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie .
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