Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , the track record of computer applications — missed cutover dates , greater costs , fewer benefits , and designs which seem to be very different from that promised — should have led to reduced salaries and status , not the opposite . |
| 2 | he should have gone to private school should n't he , really but then |
| 3 | I should have gone to medical school . ’ |
| 4 | If there is a shortfall of Catholic school provision in an area , it has never been accepted that Catholic pupils should have to go to non-Catholic schools . |
| 5 | I should have transferred to pastoral a while back . |
| 6 | You should have seen to this . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes she fell into their style — endless crisis-discussions and grumbling about how other members of the family had behaved , or should have behaved to each other . |
| 8 | ‘ When Postine next revives , her brain activity should have returned to normal . ’ |
| 9 | A hundred years from now , the march of the physical sciences — oh , Albé , you should have talked to old Erasmus Darwin about that subject ! |
| 10 | It rates Sun 's orders for the machine as ‘ outstanding , ’ figuring that the 15,000-unit backlog estimated for September when Sun 's quarter closed must have grown to 25,000 or 30,000 units by now . |
| 11 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 12 | Some mammalian families must have migrated to that continent and evolved there in isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 13 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 14 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 15 | And he must have gone to those churches for the first time . |
| 16 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 17 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 18 | But the legal tangle surrounding ‘ culpability ’ was never really unravelled : no eye-witnesses , contradictory evidence on possible mechanical faults , discrepancies about the time recorded for the breathalyser test — these factors resulted in Kemp getting away comparatively lightly , being banned from driving for three years only , with what must have seemed to many the derisory fine of only four hundred pounds . |
| 19 | He must have agreed to all this . |
| 20 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
| 21 | She had smelly white plastic miniskirts with heavy steel chain belts that must have belonged to some fetishist , and acrylic ribbed halter-tops clinging to her almost concave tits . |
| 22 | This was hardly a comparison to Æthelred 's advantage , and must have occurred to many , who would doubtless have further agreed with Ælfric that a just war was one " against the cruel seamen or against other nations who desire to destroy our homeland " . |
| 23 | We have recently had the good fortune to spend an afternoon with the present writer in residence , Joy Hendry , as our visiting speaker , and have savoured but a taste of the feast of enviable experience that she in particular , and others of similar calibre , must have afforded to those lucky enough to live in the Stirling area . |
| 24 | Plainly , since he had been aware that she had ‘ run away ’ from him , he must have still been in Prague that morning , and must have returned to that hotel suite some time after she 'd left . |
| 25 | Do n't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors ; before you know where you are it 'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory . |
| 26 | ‘ You and Sarah 'll have to see to all t'stock , as well as t'poultry and dairywork . |
| 27 | Elizabeth , my dear , we 'll have to see to that at once . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose I 'll have to go to this Sheldrake man for my pigs . ’ |
| 29 | Do n't shout too loud because you get somebody 'll have to listen to all this . |
| 30 | It 's most unlikely you could prove it , she 'll have seen to that . |