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 . |