Example sentences of "[modal v] have [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think maybe I do n't belong in control because I 'm not very good at making double-sure about things — I probably should 've double-checked that credit . |
| 2 | The Institute of Directors , the CBI and some chartered accountants in business are critical of the suggestion in Cadbury that non-executive directors should have much enhanced responsibilities to check and balance the power of the executive board . |
| 3 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |
| 4 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 5 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |
| 6 | I was amazed that someone should have such big ambitions for a group like ours , but the ideas were getting through and soon my own expectations increased . |
| 7 | It seemed to me extraordinary that this man should have such immense authority in caste-ridden India ; yet no one has questioned his greatness . |
| 8 | Well he should have that all on the system |
| 9 | There are many reasons for co-operation , but the main concern should be that whatever is to be done by clearinghouses , it should have one prime effect — that the quality of user education should be significantly improved . |
| 10 | There was an argument which insisted they should have one commercial base for tax purposes . |
| 11 | After 12 months you should have nice young plants nearly ready for moving on to permanent quarters or , if the cuttings are of the rugosa type and intended for rootstocks on to which you are going to bud other varieties , they can be planted out ready for working . |
| 12 | It is up to each member state to decide whether an EEIG registered by it should have separate legal personality . |
| 13 | The proposal is that presiding elders and whether proposal is the right word , but the suggestion that presiding elders be appointed following our conviction that every local church should have regular sacramental worship with presiding with people presiding being allowed . |
| 14 | To avoid this happening , confidential mail should have CONFIDENTIAL printed on the envelope and on the letter itself . |
| 15 | Your leader article ‘ action now for science literacy ’ ( 3 March p 566 ) quotes the Royal Society 's recommendation that all fourth and fifth year pupils should have nine weekly periods of science , an equivalent to 22.5 per cent of total teaching time . |
| 16 | Unless a bleeding point is seen on colonoscopy or the patient is found to have carcinoma of the colon , all patients should have upper gastrointestinal endoscopy . |
| 17 | We got thirty two and twenty , should have fifty two ? |
| 18 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
| 19 | There are at least three possible reasons why W should have different relational partners in C(1) and C(2) . |
| 20 | I think you should have another European language rather than French . " |
| 21 | ‘ They told me that as long as I did not rush back too quickly , I should have another four or five years . |
| 22 | Resources one should have sufficient financial support and enough time |
| 23 | A therapist who undertakes the assessment of these patients should have sufficient factual knowledge about the problem of attempted suicide and should also have interviewing skills that allow him both to put patients it ease and obtain valid information . |
| 24 | SO FAR disappointing , Aviva Petroleum near a year 's low at 170p should have more good news on acreage soon , say followers . |
| 25 | But Mr Clinton , putting together his administration in Arkansas , stormed : ‘ They should have more pressing business . ’ |
| 26 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 27 | Outside-half Naas Botha , recently arrived from Italy , will be a reserve only tomorrow but should have more demanding duties in matches two and three in Wellington and Auckland next Wednesday and tomorrow week . |
| 28 | Compulsive eating , on the other hand , receives less sympathy and rather more tut-tutting and remarks of the ‘ should have more self-discipline ’ variety . |
| 29 | Oddly enough , Bomber Command seemed to feel that if Bennett was so impressed and believed that the Pathfinders should have this latest version , then it was up to Bennett and the Pathfinders to fight and debate with Coastal Command . |
| 30 | Which ever way we look at it , its nature 's way of keeping us going , its , its what 's there to keep us surviving as a species , so its , its very clever , the , it worked , worked , nature worked it out very cleverly indeed that we should have this wonderful passion for someone and it should become love and then we should have children and then it becomes a , the whole cycle and that 's , that 's how it all goes . |