Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abolition of car tax was a bold move but it should have been done in the Budget last March , as the motor industry had asked . |
| 2 | As we become more successful in delivering health care in the community , we discover things that we should have been doing in the past but have not done . |
| 3 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 4 | I believe it must have been done outside the stable . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions . |
| 6 | As a result , in each instance , the harm that might have been done to the environment was at least delayed or controlled . |
| 7 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 8 | Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools . |
| 9 | Even jackets , which could have been done with the weaving technique , give more of a fabric which can then be lined . |
| 10 | In the face of criticism from the other judges of Angell and Pownall for overstepping their instructions , Burn thought that because ‘ of their experience and their minute examination of the plans , which was far more minute than could have been done by the judges ’ , it would be helpful to have their placings . |
| 11 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 12 | However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence . |
| 13 | This may have been done by the surveyor to protect the building society or bank . |
| 14 | This may have been done in the Middle Ages , but many warrens seem to date from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 15 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 16 | Ignored by the guard , who was running towards the house after being startled into wakefulness , the Doctor eyed the cloud of grey smoke critically , wondering how much damage would have been done to the villa itself . |
| 17 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 18 | In many respects you are only being asked to do what ought to have been done around the time of your last birthday . |
| 19 | Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) . |