Example sentences of "[modal v] have taken [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up . |
| 2 | They should have taken account of all representations and consulted adequately . |
| 3 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 4 | I should have taken notice . ’ |
| 5 | Both Stalin and Hitler should have taken note of the aesthetics . |
| 6 | The corks were tight enough to keep the wine in good condition for perhaps forty to fifty years , but it is understandable that after sixty years some evaporation should have taken place . |
| 7 | Discussion in the staff meeting should have taken place before any proposal affecting school policy is presented to the governors and a class teacher should certainly have been involved in any submission about an individual pupil . |
| 8 | Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday . |
| 9 | We ought to ask ourselves why this disquieting inflation should have taken place ; we ought also to consider what causal relationship there is between ‘ artistic culture ’ and creativity . |
| 10 | There were certainly suggestions that more explanation should have been given and that more discussion should have taken place . |
| 11 | Firminus , comes of the Auvergne , tried to prevent his name going forward , but Avitus reached the court of king Sigibert , and was consecrated in Metz , although according to the canons the ceremony should have taken place in Clermont . |
| 12 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 13 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 14 | You must have taken leave of your senses ! b . |
| 15 | God , she must have taken leave of her senses . |
| 16 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses indeed ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses , ’ Paul cried . |
| 19 | The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral . |
| 20 | All this must have taken shape before there were any houses on the scene . |
| 21 | To be heading down towards the Equator , towards tiny islands in the sun where pirates and privateers must have taken refuge to lie in wait for those gold-laden Spanish galleons , where a rich mixture of French , Dutch , Spanish and English had left an intriguing treasure-chest of cultures to be explored … |
| 22 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 23 | Similar developments can sometimes be traced in less detail in less magnificent places , and must have taken place , on a more modest scale , almost everywhere . |
| 24 | Many periods of rebuilding and enlargement must have taken place , but one building was definitely added by Holliday Dudbridge during the 1730s . |
| 25 | At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords . |
| 26 | So many meetings and partings must have taken place beneath his roof , so many dark plots hatched between his hospitable walls . |
| 27 | We know that shortly after creation a violent spate of seething geotectonic activity must have taken place as the interior of the Earth grew hotter , new out-gassing occurred and new islands appeared . |
| 28 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 29 | Since Kirsty had been feeling quite confident before the operation and yet that feeling had disappeared immediately after surgery , it seemed that something must have taken place in the theatre itself . |
| 30 | My interrogation must have taken place in the presence of the King himself . |