Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK took the view that it should have been based on Article 100 of the Treaty of Rome ( general harmonisation of national laws ) , which requires unanimity ( in which case the adverse vote of the UK could have prevented the Directive being adopted ) . |
| 2 | A party receiving a payment which should have been made into court shall forthwith notify the proper officer in writing and pay the money received into court ( Ord 11 , r 1A ) . |
| 3 | ‘ By rights they should have been made on Stir-up Sunday , only I was too busy . |
| 4 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 5 | It was held that there was a clear infringement of the Compaq trade mark , although it was accepted that it was arguable whether it should have been accepted for registration because of its phonetic similarity with " Compact " , an everyday word . |
| 6 | Such suicides are nearly always preventable and many of those in despair should have been moved to hospital for treatment or received active medical help while in prison . |
| 7 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 8 | Why Letcombe should have been sentenced to death is as much a mystery now as it was then . |
| 9 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 10 | And topped up again to pay for the repair of the flat roof over the kitchen , and the man who had done the work should have been prosecuted for fraud . |
| 11 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 12 | The anarchist paper Freiheit , in opposition to the Marxists , thought Eleanor should have been shot on sight upon arriving . |
| 13 | The Colonel had taken Sophia under his wing as a frail and dependent woman , who because of her son 's lack of responsibility must work , when she should have been maintained in comfort . |
| 14 | By rights , as Dorothy Hardisty pointed out , these young people should have been destined for college or university . |
| 15 | He should have been done for murder . |
| 16 | More time should have been given to expert uncertainties and disagreements about the nature of the disease ( reviewed as recently as last October by Solomon Snyder in The Lancet . |
| 17 | She should have been sent to prison . |
| 18 | Tonight Cindy said she thought the doctors should have been sent to prison for a longer term . |
| 19 | He made her feel shockingly vulnerable when she should have been consumed with annoyance herself . |
| 20 | It was natural that man 's relationship to God should have been expressed in covenant terms . |
| 21 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here . |
| 23 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 24 | PRACTICE — res judicata — personal injury action — claims by motorist whether claims should have been brought by passenger — estopped release 107 |
| 25 | It should have been washed with water and then a salve applied . ’ |
| 26 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 27 | ‘ He should have been banned for life for the disgraceful tackle that effectively ended the career of Gary Stevens at Spurs . |
| 28 | The RSPCA says it was an act of mindless cruelty , he should have been banned for life . |
| 29 | He should have been banned for life . |
| 30 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |