Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experts should have made stronger protests while the working group was still sitting . |
| 2 | The amount of people crammed into offices out here , they should have built longer trains . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But routine screening of milk for contaminants should have disclosed higher lead levels by mid-October . |
| 5 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 6 | I should have taken better care of you . ’ |
| 7 | Here he must have had further contact with Scott , who became Surveyor to the Fabric of the Abbey in 1846 , particularly in connection with the Broad Sanctuary houses , which Scott built on the Abbey 's land between 1852 and 1854 . |
| 8 | Saroj Lal , director of Lothian Racial Equality Council , said , however , that Mr McNeill 's comments might have caused greater harm than could be offset by an apology . |
| 9 | AFTER lunching with Tory candidate Simon Fowler attacking Frank Cook 's 881 Labour majority in Stockton North last Tuesday 's Diary suggested that the sandwiches at the Centenary in Norton might have seen better days . |
| 10 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 11 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 12 | At a news conference held to launch the report , its editor , the ILO economist Wouter van Ginneken , said yesterday that he believed workers in the richer countries might have to accept lower salary levels as international companies looked more to poorer states for their work force . |
| 13 | Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges . |
| 14 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 15 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 16 | The prognostic value of this parameter might have been higher if the follow up of our patients had been longer , since some of the patients with high upper crypt labelling indeces who did not relapse might have experienced later recurrences . |
| 17 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 18 | In their accompaniments , the strings could have contributed greater warmth and colour — particularly by using more vibrato . |
| 19 | Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer . |
| 20 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 21 | As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know . |
| 22 | This in turn could have brought higher incomes for farmers , and , since they constituted a significant section of the consuming population , a consequent increase in their demand for manufactured goods . |
| 23 | If our policies had achieved wider media coverage , we may have achieved greater support , but there is a foundation there on which we intend to build . |
| 24 | Readings were taken only at one minute intervals , and therefore saturation values may have fallen lower inbetween , although the automatic alarm set at 85% was never activated . |
| 25 | This apart , a judge may always consider or vary any decision before " the Order has been perfected " , meaning before it has been sealed and sent out ; he may have to give further opportunity to be heard , if he is going to make a change , see Note to Ord 5 , r 5 . |
| 26 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 27 | On the other hand , over-reliance on an open labour market also had disadvantages involving the amount of time taken to recruit extra workers , the need to train new entrants and the possibility that firms may have to bid higher wages to attract labour . |
| 28 | One or more of these stages may have had greater impact in some countries than others , creating separate democratic inheritances onto which the extension of the franchise was superimposed . |
| 29 | It is open to debate whether or not all the designs traditionally ascribed to Persia are in fact Persian in origin , and there is some evidence to suggest that a number may have had earlier links with Anatolia , India or Central Asia . |
| 30 | This may have masked further treatment benefits of NIPPV . |