Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should be honoured to have your company at dinner , Miss Leonora X. Whenever you 're ready to come downstairs give me a shout and I 'll come and collect you . |
| 2 | They should be ignored in normal practice and disinfection should be assumed to have taken place only at the time a chemical has been applied and after the requisite contact time has elapsed . |
| 3 | They are for estimating purposes only and should be assumed to have an accuracy no greater than + 25% . |
| 4 | It is reasonable , however , for Thompson to ask why such a degree of compartmentalisation of objectives should be presumed to have been the case in 1812 , when war had been largely continuous over twenty years , when trade unions were under the interdict of the Combination Acts , when the hand-loom weavers and knitters were suffering a catastrophic drop in earnings and when high food prices were producing widespread and severe hunger . |
| 5 | ‘ Undoubtedly if the justices had proceeded to adjudicate on the case either by convicting or by acquitting the defendant , that would have afforded ground for a good plea to the indictment , but I can not see why the fact that the justices at first said they would deal summarily with the case and afterwards changed their minds should be said to have deprived quarter sessions of jurisdiction . |
| 6 | 47% of the above felt that they should be allowed to have children |
| 7 | ( viii ) Methods of curtailing debate The general notion underlying parliamentary debate is that the other side should be allowed to have its say . |
| 8 | Mr. Chapman enquired of the Board whether the paupers and children should be allowed to have money in the workhouse . |
| 9 | No constituency should be allowed to have an extraordinarily small electorate on the pretext that it comprises widely dispersed and isolated communities . |
| 10 | In the context of educational provisions this could imply that a school in such an area should be allowed to have a very high unit cost . |
| 11 | The there 's a widespread idea that if you let people have guns the result will be more crimes of violence and more murders , and therefore , people conclude , er at least they do in this country , that only the state should have a monopoly of firearms , so only the police and the army should be allowed to have firearms . |
| 12 | He was so committed to the free market that he once said 12-year-olds should be allowed to have credit cards — if they had the money . |
| 13 | David Nicholson says racing is an entertainment industry and they should be allowed to have Sunday racing . |
| 14 | In the early stages a higher proportion of errors will occur , but these should be shown to have value in the process of reaching a solution . |
| 15 | Science as it is presented in schools , he argues , seems irrelevant to most 13–16-year-olds , and if we are to recruit more pupils into scientific careers , then science should be shown to have some relationship to the issues that concern them . |
| 16 | Nor , for the same reason , can he succeed upon his broader submission that the publicity now given to these documents has so eroded their privacy that the public interest in their future non-disclosure should be found to have evaporated . |
| 17 | As Dillon LJ pointed out in R & B Custom Brokers : … there are some transactions which are clearly integral parts of the businesses concerned , and these should be held to have been carried out in the course of those businesses ; this would cover , apart from much else , the instance of a one-off adventure in the nature of trade , where the transaction itself would constitute a trade or business . |
| 18 | 1.2 Our terms of reference define attainment targets as : ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ and programmes of study as : ‘ describing the essential content which needs to be covered to enable pupils to reach or surpass the attainment targets ’ . |
| 19 | The Working Group 's terms of reference defined attainment targets as ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ . |
| 20 | The success subjects should be expected to have in this matching process and the situations under which they would change their target levels are not clear . |
| 21 | This is a convoluted way of achieving a just result , and the law should be that the defendant should be proved to have realised that he was dealing with a policeman , or was reckless about the matter . |
| 22 | ‘ You really think a woman should be forced to have a baby if she does n't want it ? ’ |
| 23 | But if there is no more than that the creditor , in an attempt to satisfy itself that the surety properly understands the proposed transaction and that the transaction will not subsequently be impeachable , offers an explanation of the transaction and of the security document , I do not think that the creditor should be taken to have assumed a tortious duty of care . |
| 24 | It further provided that if the tenant failed to serve a counternotice he should be deemed to have agreed the rent specified in the landlord 's notice . |
| 25 | Because on the stage they acquire importance , they must be seen to have a proper purpose . |
| 26 | By relief it was stipulated that at least two hundred armed men must be seen to have entered the town , with due provisioning . |
| 27 | Poor though the district was , old Saturday morning clothes would not do — one must be seen to have made an effort . |
| 28 | The first , by a Bank of England official , must be presumed to have been highly critical because it led to drastic reform of the island 's supervisory procedures . |
| 29 | All must be presumed to have been somewhat limited in potential , for the Bank of England 's sole right to joint-stock banking constrained the others into the " partnership " form . |
| 30 | This came into being when the very first change in the first cell took place , and that change , which was the first biochemical action , ultimately proved to have been , or must be acknowledged to have been , taken to initiate the process which would continue indefinitely to produce a living being with an ever-increasing capacity to enjoy life . |