Example sentences of "[noun] should have taken [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 There were certainly suggestions that more explanation should have been given and that more discussion should have taken place .
6 Both Stalin and Hitler should have taken note of the aesthetics .
7 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 .
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