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

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1 She felt cheated , when she should have felt despair .
2 She should have felt relief — was n't this what she 'd been longing to hear ?
3 Harry knew he should have felt indignation at this crude evidence of Charlie and Roy Mallender pulling strings , not to mention a certain satisfaction that they thought they needed to pull them , but all he could detect within himself was a sickening clutch of fear .
4 It is unreasonable that local health authorities should have to compare routine needs — for hernia operations , or knee and hip joint operations — with the problems surrounding experimental surgery , of which they must have no direct knowledge .
5 This approach , according to the standard thinking , should have made Poland 's producers more competitive .
6 ‘ I should have made Siban 's task easier . ’
7 ‘ I should have made love to you long before this . ’
8 I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me .
9 If a conventionalist thinks that the Court should have disregarded Plessy in Brown because racial segregation is especially immoral , he will insist that the Court should have made plain to the public the exceptional nature of its decision , that it should have admitted it was changing the law for nonlegal reasons .
10 He should have made birdie ; he had the greatest opportunity to win the Open .
11 He dismissed Mr Crook 's argument that the judges should have made orders postponing publication until after the jury 's verdict , instead of excluding the press and public .
12 Government deregulation has exposed previously protected service industries to competition and forced managers to make the job cuts they should have made years ago .
13 Or , ‘ You should have met Jeanie , Ludovic .
14 He should have met Shakespeare and Burbage .
15 That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value .
16 Yeah but she should have know ages ago that she was having twins .
17 I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt .
18 Peru too , looked good at one time and should have led UK publishers into the Andean Pact countries , but in fact the shining path has led elsewhere .
19 ‘ But I possibly should have kept hold of Edward Sheringham . ’
20 We should have kept Rocky and left out Strach …
21 I do n't , and if I did I should have to suppose Providence to be the devil … ’
22 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 .
23 According to last year 's appraisal sheet I should have undergone training in :
24 Coffee tables should have rounded corners .
25 Mr Thompson 's son Brian said his father should have worn spectacles , but refused to .
26 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 .
27 Very young children present a problem in that there may be a question as to whether their parents should have exercised supervision over them .
28 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 . ’
29 Accordingly the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for ‘ welfare ’ laid down by the Convention itself .
30 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 .
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