Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |
| 2 | Had it been a Saturday we should have stayed to see the cheese market . |
| 3 | I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event . |
| 4 | It is ironic , therefore , that Freud , the anti-religious father of psychoanalysis , should have chosen to use the term aggression as implicitly synonymous with evil and wickedness in his well-known and passionate indictment of his own species : |
| 5 | I AM staggered that Frances Bissell should have chosen to praise the Academy of Culinary Arts/Charles Heidsieck awards menu ( Caterer & Hotelkeeper , 22–28 August ) . |
| 6 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 7 | Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the competition is not clear , except that his brother-in-law and close friend was Sir Benjamin Hawes , who had framed the War Department 's accommodation schedule . |
| 8 | She should have known to expect the unexpected where he was concerned . |
| 9 | It is surprising that the Government should have failed to understand the public enthusiasm for the Beveridge Report , when it was published in December 1942 . |
| 10 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 11 | It is very understandable that those who wish for a federal Europe should have tried to undermine the credibility of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , since it attracted the names of over eighty Conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 12 | Just as my tankman , when we had smoked our cigarettes must have begun to realise the horrendous trauma he had just been through — so , upon reaching home and spreading the news — I too began to dwell upon that single notorious word . |
| 13 | This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M. |
| 14 | It is clear that , whether they succeeded or not , both the Criminal Law Revision Committee and the draftsman must have intended to give the word one meaning , which would be the same in the Act as in the committee 's report . |
| 15 | Something must have happened to convert the original stew of gases into the ones we breathe today . |
| 16 | In this instance the gunner must have failed to heed the warning with his upper-rear turret . |
| 17 | Unhappily , many of the 700 subscribers must have failed to deliver the second cash instalment and take up their copies when the book was published in 1765 . |
| 18 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
| 19 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 20 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 21 | By this time , the tigress must have come to know the particular scent , as well as stance , of her hunter and probably recognized him , even when dressed up as an Indian woman . |
| 22 | So alone and unroped he must have had to tackle the daunting vertical crack above , knowing he was fully committed . |
| 23 | He probably found that Ma was good in bed , but hell as soon as her feet touched the floor and after all , even Walter and Ma must have had to spend the larger part of the day vertical , I bet he ached to crawl back to Hilda , but Ma had him neatly encircled . |
| 24 | The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain . |
| 25 | When I told Robins of the effort it must have required to transport the heavy materials by hand he just laughed . |
| 26 | But , generally , one of the strengths of the book is its unusually current information , despite the time it must have taken to produce the book . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 28 | ‘ Academic respectability ’ prevailed and courses which might have begun to address the key question — what skills and expertise are crucial to the art of teaching and how can these best be learned and applied ? — were never developed . |
| 29 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 30 | She had initially thought he might have come to reclaim the Madam 's brothel — in which case he was going to have a mysterious and fatal accident . |