Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | We should have eaten at the pub . |
2 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
3 | Lennox should have scored in the 75th minute when McLaughlin 's long-range strike was pushed onto the post by O'Shea , but with an open goal in front of him , Lennox sliced his shot into the side netting . |
4 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
5 | ‘ With hindsight ’ , the HAS commented , ‘ it can be seen that the exercise of moving to community care should have begun with the provision of substitute facilities for longer term dependent patients ’ . |
6 | London Stock Exchange dealings in Foreign & Colonial PEP Investment Trust should have begun by the time this issue reaches readers . |
7 | He should have built on the team which won the title in 1991 , and bought quality players . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education . |
10 | The use of high frequency sound should have led to the development of sound-processing pans of the brain , although it is not clear whether any extinct form had as large a brain cavity as seen in some modern delphinids . |
11 | So , in theory , all should have kept in the same condition as when first stored . |
12 | In the overview of the provisions of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill 1992 , which appeared in ACCOUNTANCY 's December 1992 issue ( see p 128 ) , the reference under Wages Councils to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1980 should have referred to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1986 . |
13 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
14 | It follows that , apart from the question of the impact of Community law , such is the discretion which the courts should have exercised in the present case . |
15 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
16 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
17 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
18 | ‘ One nurse should have gone into the security system first . |
19 | I mean , ‘ Cripes , dear , if it was anonymity you 'd wanted you should have gone into the family tailoring business , ’ I hear you say , with some justification . |
20 | So the other police should have gone into the other should have gone away somewhere . |
21 | Gunn argues that Nina should have gone through a second , refurbishing phase , to bring it in line with the German accelerator , Desy . |
22 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
23 | Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare . |
24 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
27 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
28 | I should have gone to the children 's matinée but the serial , Spider Man , was too frightening . |
29 | Dozens of paintings that should have gone to the estate were sold by Baghoomian soon after Basquiat 's death , however , and they have not been found . |
30 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |