Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They possibly should have scored more tries , but as against England , the Welsh defended very well . ’
2 McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) .
3 It looks really , I felt like saying to him , Sid you should have made that brass then I thought no , I wo n't .
4 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 .
5 If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula .
6 I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine .
7 You should have made this years and years ago should n't you ?
8 Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work .
9 I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy .
10 ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides .
11 The experts should have made stronger protests while the working group was still sitting .
12 Chandos , as narrator , describes the two who have agreed to remain loving friends with the luscious approval that ‘ suddenly faced with life in the midst of death , two natures so alike and so peerless should have comforted each other ’ ; they have in fact exchanged a kiss .
13 The amount of people crammed into offices out here , they should have built longer trains .
14 No secret about the last time Gloucester played Northampton … the saints won 17-10 … the cherry and whites should have shredded this film
15 In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ?
16 Downstairs is now vacant , and she should have quit last weekend .
17 By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved .
18 The prime minister 's critics say all this is happening too late ; that he should have regrouped last autumn , and that the Canadian Titanic may founder even while the ministers switch deckchairs .
19 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) .
20 It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ .
21 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 .
22 Countersigning officers should have received some training in JAR interviewing and counselling skills .
23 I really think by now , Earth Summit or no Earth Summit , that we should have received some acknowledgment from DGXI .
24 ‘ The General should have received another dose of fertizol to stimulate his brood cycle for his next assignment .
25 It is natural that these political events should have received most attention from historians : they concern the principles of social organization , the relations between the two chief governmental powers in society , and the materials are comparatively abundant .
26 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 .
27 I have passed The Secrets of Speed Reading to my colleague and Booker judge Nicholas Clee , who by test 10 should have reached 1,050 words per minute .
28 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 .
29 ‘ I always said we should have gone straight back .
30 According to the opinion polls , 60% of the electorate thinks he should have gone last August .
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