Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is no surprise that parliament should have approved a conservative plan . |
| 32 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 33 | We should have had a general election last Thursday , rather than three by-elections . |
| 34 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 35 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |
| 36 | You should have had a tough education . |
| 37 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
| 38 | Encamped for long spells in the Lansdowne territory Ballymena should have had a comfortable interval lead but McAleese uncharacteristically missed a penalty at either end of the first half . |
| 39 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 40 | At the very least , he should have had a local policeman with him . |
| 41 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 42 | I was not told , when we left , that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen . |
| 43 | Days before the trading figures were due , when it should have recommended a long position , the firm was likely to recommend going short . |
| 44 | ‘ In the old days we should have thrown a guinea-fowl or a few warthog piglets in , too . |
| 45 | In that particular case , the Community should have negotiated a common fisheries policy by the end of 1978 , by virtue of the 1972 Act of Accession . |
| 46 | On the third default , the Institute says , the trader should have to pay a refundable bond , which would be forfeited if there was a further default within 12 months . |
| 47 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 48 | The legislative programme should have included a criminal justice Bill to prohibit conviction on confession evidence alone , to bring some consistency into a chaotic sentencing policy and to give statutory rights to the victims of crime . |
| 49 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 50 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 51 | To qualify for an ultra race , runners must have completed a full marathon in under three hours 30 minutes . |
| 52 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 53 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 54 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 55 | erm I think the city must have become a real mess , there were stores piled up everywhere , wood , coal , corn , often I think they had to build sort of , something to hold the corn , there 's a lot of the evidence for that in the college accounts certainly . |
| 56 | And it should be said that , at least outwardly , Murphy and his men retained their charm and their good humour throughout what must have become a harrowing experience . |
| 57 | On the night of Good Friday , the apostles must have felt a painful sense of loss . |
| 58 | At Charlton Mackerell ( right ) the carver must have mistaken a lighted candle for a flower in the bottom corner , when copying from a book |
| 59 | Though his extravagance was well rewarded , it must have placed a severe strain on the house 's finances . |
| 60 | The real value of the results actually achieved has been a most gratifying surprise to everyone concerned , and it is easy , after the event , to reflect wisely upon the fact that a large percentage of the men must have served a long and painful apprenticeship , whilst on Military Service , to the art of transforming swamps into ‘ better 'oles ’ . |