Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks really , I felt like saying to him , Sid you should have made that brass then I thought no , I wo n't . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 4 | I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine . |
| 5 | Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No secret about the last time Gloucester played Northampton … the saints won 17-10 … the cherry and whites should have shredded this film |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Downstairs is now vacant , and she should have quit last weekend . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Countersigning officers should have received some training in JAR interviewing and counselling skills . |
| 17 | I really think by now , Earth Summit or no Earth Summit , that we should have received some acknowledgment from DGXI . |
| 18 | ‘ The General should have received another dose of fertizol to stimulate his brood cycle for his next assignment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I always said we should have gone straight back . |
| 22 | The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement . |
| 23 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | But I should have guessed that Hurley and his crowd would again put two and two together and make 22 . |
| 25 | It may seem natural to a foreign scholar [ presumably Zachrisson : JM ] to suppose that the sound [ ae ] … might be spelt e ; but it is little short of incredible that native English-speaking scholars [ presumably Wyld : JM ] should have accepted this view . |
| 26 | He should have played more comedy . ’ |
| 27 | I , you see I think that instead of , instead of Lawson putting interest rates up to squeeze inflation out of the economy he should have stopped all credit . |
| 28 | John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship . |
| 29 | I should have attended that Council meeting you know ? ’ he added more lightly , but I was busy , I sent my excuses . |
| 30 | I should have realised that genius , as some bright spark in the office said , has a lot to do with genes . |