Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 I do n't , and if I did I should have to suppose Providence to be the devil … ’
32 I told him I should have to publish Sir Hubert 's disclaimer , and warned him that an unedited publication would endanger implementation of an appointment from which Burmans expected so much , and would also lead to an unhappy relationship between the paper and the government .
33 According to last year 's appraisal sheet I should have undergone training in :
34 Coffee tables should have rounded corners .
35 Mr Thompson 's son Brian said his father should have worn spectacles , but refused to .
36 Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed .
37 Very young children present a problem in that there may be a question as to whether their parents should have exercised supervision over them .
38 By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’
39 Accordingly the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for ‘ welfare ’ laid down by the Convention itself .
40 Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all .
41 It is not surprising that , as a major part of public expenditure , the finances of the Welfare State should have received attention from a government , which has been keen to reduce the rate of growth of public expenditure and to limit the role of the state .
42 All members should have received information about this , but if you have n't , or of you are not a member but would like to be involved with us in the challenge of these days , then please pick up an envelope from the Vestibule .
43 Although the wife , as the other trustee of the conveyance , should have received notice of any incumbrance ( see Dearle v Hall ( 1828 ) 3 Russ 1 ) , it is as well if the conveyance to the wife and new husband contains a recital that the property is free from incumbrances ( assuming this to be so ) to stop any requisitions on a later sale and also to direct the parties ' attention to any incumbrances if there have been such .
44 They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way .
45 If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’
46 By that time , the rest of the army landed at Leven should have reached Tayside by foot and joined with them .
47 By next week , Fujitsu Ltd and its ICL Plc and Amdahl Corp affiliates should have announced details of a strategic technology alliance , first fruits of which will be the creation of yet another common Unix application environment , to be supported across their respective ( yet-to-be-announced in Amdahl 's case ) Sparc RISC-based systems .
48 Charles Muscatine ( 1986 ) notes that the self-indulgence and materialism of the fabliaux were symptomatic of ideas that contributed to ( perhaps he should have said attitudes that flourished along with ) the growth of urbanism and a concurrent commercialization of the French countryside .
49 We should have said price/performance ) .
50 ‘ I should have said Zimbabwe , ’ said Lydia .
51 No doubt it will be said that the British public have said chemist when they should have said pharmacist for so long that it would be impossible to change , but the obvious answer to that is that decimalisation presented little problem .
52 You do C D sorry , I should have said M D If you want to make a directory off the root directory , you type M D to make directory .
53 First reaction from royal observers was amazement that she should have gone public at this stage .
54 He should have gone days ago and alerted the Regent to the situation , to come and relieve the town .
55 Afterwards Neil Cochrane thought that he should have struck Havvie down then , but shock at learning who McAllister really was had him in its grip , and he let the shameful accusation go by .
56 It is this conjuncture which explains why a state rooted in the social and economic dominance of the serf-owning nobility should have undertaken Emancipation .
57 Willie should have ignored Geoffrey 's protests , and Geoffrey ( presumably hoping to protect the wretched judges of the Appeal Court from further criticism ) should never have made them .
58 Protocol 321 ( in prison volunteers ) was of ‘ marginal value ’ in assessing the safety of the drug in 1993 , the panel felt , and Upjohn 's explanation that the incomplete information on adverse effects was due to a transcribing error , is ‘ not implausible , although … even in 1978 , a properly organised company should have operated checks which eliminated such errors ’ .
59 In response to a petition by Knesset member Avraham Poraz , the court found that Sharon should have sought approval for the construction programme from the Knesset .
60 He mastered his rage , dropped his hand , said , his voice as indifferent as hers , but the feeling beneath it deep indeed , ‘ I should have thrashed sense into you long ago , Daughter , as I would have done had you been a boy .
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