Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arch-conservative , Senator Jesse Helms ( North Carolina ) , complained that the administration should have mobilised the US troops , based less than a mile from the Panamanian Defence Force headquarters , to help the rebels . |
| 2 | She argued that the history of " scum " should have alerted the IBA to its controversial nature , and that any decision to screen it should have been made by the appointed members of the Authority , and not by their executive staff . |
| 3 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 4 | He commented : ‘ This is an extremely serious development , and we really feel that the owner should have consulted the BMC before making deals with individual climbers . ’ |
| 5 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 6 | Contacting White Waltham for a QDM several minutes after he should have intercepted the Burnham VOR 280 degree radial ( and not knowing why he had n't ) produced the instruction to tune Heathrow Radar on 119.9 . |
| 7 | They really should have outpointed the New Zealand XV in the first match at Hamilton for they outplayed the New Zealanders for rather more than half the game . |
| 8 | According to Levy and Reid the latter should have shown a LVF superiority . |
| 9 | Strictly speaking , I should have informed the Kent police when she was fit for visitors , or rather the hospital should have . |
| 10 | Mr Dugdale must have missed the Granada 500 transmitted in primetime on ITV — the only time during the campaign when the three party leaders were questioned by real voters on national television . |
| 11 | I must have heard the Brahms C major Sonata countless times , yet I can not recall having ever encountered a reading which balances the young composer 's variegated , emotionally charged adolescent outpourings as unerringly as Richter does here . |
| 12 | The distinct possibility of a Turkish equaliser must have sent the Wapping Contingent scouring the bottom drawer for elegant headlines like ‘ Wot A Load of Turkeys ’ , or ‘ A Squawking Great Balls-up ’ . |
| 13 | They dived down from out of the sun to the south and in view of the short space of time that had elapsed since the aircraft had landed it is almost certain that the enemy aircraft must have seen the Sunderland in the air . |
| 14 | At that time I knew very little about Montaigne : but Eliot had come to him through Shakespeare and the influences upon Shakespeare ( who must have read the Apologie de Raymond Sebond ) ; and , as he said in his essay on Pascal , Montaigne 's outlook is the only credible alternative to that of belief . |
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| 16 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must have submitted the SSR . |
| 17 | During the 1590s Evesham must have had a London workshop . |
| 18 | Such theories must have attracted the Eliot who so often had connected modern and savage life and whose own poetry had been attacked for its apparently illogical movements from one image to the next . |
| 19 | If anybody had seen me they must have thought the SAS was on exercise in the area . |
| 20 | Yes he 'll have mentioned the United States on occasions I hope cos he teaches the United States , yeah , well as you know I mean there are a number of separate powers , there 's the presidential erm there 's the presidential power , in foreign policy making I 'm talking about , there 's president , there 's the congress there 's the Pentagon , there 's the secretary of state for foreign affairs as well , and one of the characteristics of American policy is the way in which sometimes they can be ha be pursuing separate erm aims and using different methods . |
| 21 | The only budget announcement that might have influenced the mid-Staffordshire result was the doubling of the savings limit for those entitled to claim poll-tax relief . |
| 22 | Here we have a possible explanation of why the Cro-Magnons might have exterminated the Neanderthals : the Neanderthals were very like them , and therefore constituted a threat . |
| 23 | Detectives think they might have uncovered an IRA Christmas bombing campaign . |
| 24 | BOMB-PROOF litter bins , which might have limited the Warrington IRA bomb horror , are being developed by the Royal Ordnance factories . |
| 25 | During the 1960's the pastoralist ideology dominated , praising the countryside image and tradition , hence it might have affected the HIDB 's own self-image , thus protecting the Highland way of life may have been incorporated alongside their development remit . |
| 26 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 27 | In Hanover , Sewell was introduced to Professor Havemann , whose plans to visit England in 1777 and in 1796 unfortunately came to nothing ( the missing link , possibly , in a chain that might have set the Hanover veterinary school , founded in 1788 , rather than Lyons or Alfort as an immediate model for the London Veterinary College ) . |
| 28 | Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform . |
| 29 | Might have won the Jean |
| 30 | She thought he might have meant a New York accent , but she was from Los Angeles and would n't have tried anyway . |