Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We should have gone metric years ago . ’ |
| 3 | There is no earthly reason why the Community should have harmonised social benefits . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The court should have read written statements of the evidence and any expert reports before the hearing ( FPCR , r21(1) ; FPR , r4.21(1) ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I should have to get other opinions but I 'd guess they would fetch a good deal of money at auction . |
| 9 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even on a far smaller scale the pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the third century B.C. must have represented important events . |
| 12 | What banking services there were , had been developed on the continent by Italians , and were not widely available outside the capital cities like London , so provincial merchants must have employed other forms of credit . |
| 13 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 14 | ( This belligerent insistence on Washington 's right to behave as it chose in the interests of US ‘ security ’ must have aggravated Cuban fears . ) |
| 15 | The Mesopotamian Jews were still united to the Palestinian Jews by a common language , though the Aramaic spoken by Palestinian Jews must have presented considerable differences from the Aramaic spoken by Mesopotamian Jews . |
| 16 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 17 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 18 | God must have sent good kids on the premise that my maternal inadequacies would ensure their return within the fortnight , had he sent anything too difficult . |
| 19 | Eligibility is conditioned upon satisfaction of the relevant contribution tests : basically , claimants must have made sufficient payments into the national insurance fund to entitle them to claim the benefit . |
| 20 | Nor should you be disconnected for a debt owed by a previously registered consumer , but you must have made proper arrangements with the fuel boards to take over the supply . |
| 21 | The height of these first forests must have caused considerable problems for the animal inhabitants . |
| 22 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 23 | Newcomen must have done various experiments before he erected this first commercially successful engine , but we have no record of these . |
| 24 | The rarity of finds of natural occurrences suggests how intensively the prehistoric Europeans must have sought rare substances and how much trouble they were prepared to go to in disseminating them . |
| 25 | They watched him trying to free himself , as he must have tried countless times before . |
| 26 | If so , the town must have known turbulent times in the past . |
| 27 | They must have had long journies , so I expect they 're having a lie in , I know I would . |
| 28 | So the smaller children in the crowd must have had awful problems . |
| 29 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |
| 30 | And did they , they must have had lean times if they sat around and waited for a boat , one did n't come in some days may be . |