Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels .
2 The Government has itself predicted that the number of Legal Aid Certificates issued this year will drop from 410,000 to 287,000 which means that over 30% of those who should have received legal aid will be deprived of access to justice .
3 In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures .
4 Why this control procedure should have attenuated latent inhibition is not clear , but evidently the presence of S2 can have this effect even when it is not ( as is required by current theories ) presented immediately after S1 .
5 ‘ I always said we should have gone straight back .
6 ‘ We should have gone metric years ago . ’
7 The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement .
8 It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
9 There is no earthly reason why the Community should have harmonised social benefits .
10 And so the mutual help and support which should have typified Christian brothers became a stick which the Western church used in the coming crusade to beat Orthodox and infidel alike .
11 House officers should have named educational supervisors , usually their consultants , who ensure that the educational objectives of the year are met and help with any personal problems that may arise .
12 The court should have read written statements of the evidence and any expert reports before the hearing ( FPCR , r21(1) ; FPR , r4.21(1) ) .
13 Before leaving London , Belle had been secretary to an hotel keeper and wine merchant , which should have provided useful experience for the venture .
14 The information on this project provided by the IDA and the IIRS should have provided sufficient assurance to those concerned regarding the plant suitability and safety for the area .
15 Because of intended aerobatic flight , the refueller had been instructed to leave the tank two gallons short of maximum fuel when refuelling a Tiger Moth ; this should have provided sufficient fuel for two hours 35 minutes flying .
16 One highly ‘ political ’ Lord Chancellor — like Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — can , if he chooses , make a considerable impact on judicial lawmaking at the highest level but , for this to be so , it is not necessary that he should have held political office or have been a Member of Parliament or a law officer .
17 His analysis was a taste of what is to come from the Left : Labour should have promised drastic defence cuts to pay for its spending plans .
18 The patient should have had central chest pain in the classic distribution for at least 15 minutes .
19 I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party .
20 It was incredible , he continued , that a king who had established the Presbyterian religion in Scotland and was willing to establish the Catholic religion in Ireland should have had insurmountable scruples about the ecclesiastical constitution of England .
21 The application of this incorrect test may have materially affected the judge 's decision , since he may well have considered that the children 's welfare overrode the mother 's wishes and feelings , a matter to which he should have had particular regard under section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) .
22 I should have to get other opinions but I 'd guess they would fetch a good deal of money at auction .
23 On the Lord Chancellor 's own figures , over 30% of those who should have got legal aid next year will now lose it .
24 We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas .
25 But owners House of Fraser say police should have allowed trained staff to search the shop first .
26 He should have taken great pride in having so very much pleased the world with his choice .
27 I should have thought veterinary surgery was reasonably remunerative .
28 Jimmy Adams , too , who must have pushed match-award adjudicator Everton Weekes close to a three way split , sat head bowed in the dressing-room , contemplating the following week 's engagement at Eppleton in the Durham Senior League .
29 I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others .
30 Even on a far smaller scale the pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the third century B.C. must have represented important events .
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