Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of Britain 's membership of the European Monetary System should have led to a complete rethink of the Maastricht agreement to move to a single currency . |
| 2 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 3 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 4 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 5 | The prosecution should have applied to a judge of the Central Criminal Court to revoke bail and then if bail was granted again , to impose the condition of medical examination required by the statute . |
| 6 | Originally this state must have led to a great deal of contradictory and ambivalent behaviour , with the bird being tugged in opposite directions by its opposing moods . |
| 7 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 8 | The network protocol basically decides what kind of adaptor your PC must have to connect to a LAN . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid they 'll have to agree to a change of day , or it 'll be cancelled . |
| 10 | ‘ The greatest thing is telling him there is no point going to his mainstream school any longer if he is not going to get around and that he 'll have to go to a special school — at which point he explodes in terror and starts to make special efforts . |
| 11 | You can either go right across in front of it , you 'll have to go to a number . |
| 12 | She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child . |
| 13 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 14 | Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second . |
| 15 | A greater use of comparison , in addition to immanent critique , might have led to a lessening of prejudice , elitism and class — and Euro-centrism . |
| 16 | Agreement on Germany and the provision of Marshall Aid without strings might have led to a different outcome . |
| 17 | This situation might have led to a drive for better theory for public sector accounting , to sustain these ad hoc policies — but it has not . |
| 18 | Audit new systems : evaluate present systems to identify mistakes and hence avoid their repetition and to identify areas where a small resource input might have led to a larger benefit . |
| 19 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 20 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 21 | She thought she might have to move to a cheaper place anyway . |
| 22 | Stephen Glover could have taken either of two ‘ angles ’ : a bitchy , scandal-strewn insider 's account , which might have appealed to a small audience of fellow scribblers and media junkies ; or a description of what it takes to launch a high-profile business in the teeth of fierce competition , which might have interested those thousands of readers who do not drink at London 's Groucho Club . |
| 23 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 24 | Instead , he gave the number he might have dialled to a colleague and said he would be there unless at home . |
| 25 | It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions . |
| 26 | the jacket was the uniform of Britain 's 95th Rifles , though it was now so threadbare and patched that it might have belonged to a tramp . |
| 27 | They might have belonged to a different species . |
| 28 | ‘ We are still in business and still functioning as normal for this year 's but we might have to revert to a one-day show in 1993 , ’ added Mr Steel . |
| 29 | But we might have to revert to a one-day show in 1993. ’ — Ex-serviceman John Bennet has been appointed show chairman . |
| 30 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |