Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should have sent some people to the airport , ’ she muttered . |
| 2 | In early November Abilio José Osorio Soares , the ( Timorese ) governor of East Timor , reportedly told the Indonesian legal magazine Forum Keadilan that Indonesian troops should have killed more people at the Santa Cruz cemetery in November 1991 . |
| 3 | It may well be the case that we should have had more staff but I willingly accept that the tenfold increase in the number arriving has overwhelmed our resources . |
| 4 | But owners House of Fraser say police should have allowed trained staff to search the shop first . |
| 5 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 6 | You must have liked coloured people ? |
| 7 | It must have sent many poultry people away to think more deeply about their future and the industry they labour in . |
| 8 | Somebody must have seen these people last week … |
| 9 | ‘ Somebody must have seen these people last week … |
| 10 | Somebody must have seen these people last week … |
| 11 | I think he must have enjoyed that haddock . |
| 12 | Cos Alex comes and he 's putting a bet on , I says he 'll have to put ten pence each way or whatever for me on |
| 13 | I 'll have to serve these people . |
| 14 | Well you 'll have to have some fruit . |
| 15 | If they 're saying they work with people that are post sixteen and a special need , then they 'll have to identify those people and have to say , but th the |
| 16 | This gives a good idea of the rates of deposition and seems effectively to dispose of the idea that Loch Ness might have acquired 1000 m of sediment since the last ice age . |
| 17 | A senior London police officer was attempting to attract black recruits into the police force , whilst denying that racism in the force might have deterred black people from joining in the past : ‘ Racism in the force is not the main reason for black people preferring not to apply . |
| 18 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 19 | ‘ But I think it highly unlikely that Mr Clowes could have found any means of ensuring that investigation of the matters in question was averted , while at the same time satisfying the Department that his operations could properly be licensed . |
| 20 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 21 | Ca n't be him , if you 'd have paid five quid a ticket . |
| 22 | What people tend to do is they answer a question that they 've revised well and they can easily answer and they spend an hour and a half on it and then they fi they do , I mean you know you see them answering they write you pages and pages and pages and it 's a perfect answer and they get maybe ninety percent but had they spent about half as much time they 'd have got seventy percent anyway because they knew most of the important bits . |
| 23 | Although the failure of the courts to take into account Sri Lankan ideas about status may have led some people to experience injustice , it scarcely explains the extensive perjury and high level of litigation . |
| 24 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 25 | Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have seen these people in Linthorpe Village pubs on Saturday night to contact them on . |
| 26 | Likewise , you may have to pay other people to do some of the jobs , such as the decorating , that you previously managed yourself . |
| 27 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 28 | ‘ Adequate resources would have to include extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training , i.e. the staff we have are all needed to run the service ’ … |
| 29 | Contractors would have to employ more people . |
| 30 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |