Example sentences of "should have taken [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She should have taken precautions against such a mishap .
2 They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up .
3 They should have taken account of all representations and consulted adequately .
4 She should have taken Clare up on her offer of going to work with her one day .
5 If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day .
6 I should have taken notice . ’
7 Both Stalin and Hitler should have taken note of the aesthetics .
8 The corks were tight enough to keep the wine in good condition for perhaps forty to fifty years , but it is understandable that after sixty years some evaporation should have taken place .
9 Discussion in the staff meeting should have taken place before any proposal affecting school policy is presented to the governors and a class teacher should certainly have been involved in any submission about an individual pupil .
10 Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday .
11 We ought to ask ourselves why this disquieting inflation should have taken place ; we ought also to consider what causal relationship there is between ‘ artistic culture ’ and creativity .
12 There were certainly suggestions that more explanation should have been given and that more discussion should have taken place .
13 Firminus , comes of the Auvergne , tried to prevent his name going forward , but Avitus reached the court of king Sigibert , and was consecrated in Metz , although according to the canons the ceremony should have taken place in Clermont .
14 This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is .
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