Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | You should have made this years and years ago should n't you ? |
| 4 | The experts should have made stronger protests while the working group was still sitting . |
| 5 | The amount of people crammed into offices out here , they should have built longer trains . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We should have gone metric years ago . ’ |
| 10 | If such low citations were offset by high publication rates for thesis-derived research , then they should have achieved higher rankings in the table above . |
| 11 | The council should have stopped these dealings when the district auditor began to question their legality in the summer of 1988 , but the new options were taken out between then and 23 February this year , when the council decided to cease making payments on the transactions . |
| 12 | This course equips you to skipper by day with some confidence , but you need previous experience ; you should have sailed 5 days on a yacht , with 4 hours night sailing and 100 miles logged . |
| 13 | There is no earthly reason why the Community should have harmonised social benefits . |
| 14 | By section 56 , Acme was permitted to transfer the software because there were no express terms in the licence agreement prohibiting this , but it should have transferred all copies of WORDY . |
| 15 | And so the mutual help and support which should have typified Christian brothers became a stick which the Western church used in the coming crusade to beat Orthodox and infidel alike . |
| 16 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 17 | pointed out that the meeting needed to grant an indulgence to waive the requirement that candidates for First and Second Vice Presidents should have served two years on a National Committee . |
| 18 | House officers should have named educational supervisors , usually their consultants , who ensure that the educational objectives of the year are met and help with any personal problems that may arise . |
| 19 | You should have done this ages ago . |
| 20 | If Lithuania had scored , as they should have done several times in the second half , maybe that would have shaken the Irish from their slumber . |
| 21 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 22 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 24 | It should have read 300 years . |
| 25 | The court should have read written statements of the evidence and any expert reports before the hearing ( FPCR , r21(1) ; FPR , r4.21(1) ) . |
| 26 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 27 | This paper should have suggested many lines of worthwhile investigation , and observations of real populations on the shore will undoubtedly throw up others , but it may be helpful to list some topics here . |
| 28 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 29 | The social workers commented that in this very ‘ stuck ’ situation something had to give to get any movement ; it was necessary to encourage the daughter to take the independence she should have had many years ago . |
| 30 | Because on the basis of the economic models and the way which we look at determinants of demand in economics , this should n't have happened , we should have had the reverse , we should have had fewer holidays being taken and certainly fewer overseas holidays . |