Example sentences of "it should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should have been done sooner , he wrote , but the truth is it would always have been too late . |
| 2 | However , it should have been obvious to the pilot , and to everyone at the launch point , that with either a swing or a wing-drop there would almost certainly be a collision . |
| 3 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 4 | It should meet BS 5446 Part 1 or it should have the Kitemark on it . |
| 5 | It should have been returned to the author for him to re-write in a clear and concise manner . |
| 6 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 7 | It should have been QPR 's , when Sinton , set up by Bardsley , somehow contrived to shoot wide . |
| 8 | ‘ I loved the song , and I think it should have been a hit , but there again the record company did nothing to promote it . |
| 9 | It should have been very sophisticated . |
| 10 | It 's more aerodynamic , the interior has been improved ( although not nearly as much as it should have been ) , the new engine has more power and yet is no thirstier , and the new suspension means safer , more predictable , handling . |
| 11 | The fact that they had not fought about it should have announced their despair . |
| 12 | Where it should have tried harder , however , is with taming mechanical noise levels . |
| 13 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 14 | ‘ It should have done , ’ he said , when we told him . |
| 15 | It was a stupid decision , indicating only the severity of the government 's dollar crisis , and it is incredible that it should have been implemented without any discussion with the country 's major exhibitor . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 17 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |
| 18 | The Government argues that its bill enshrines Channel 4 as part of the system of public service broadcasting and that therefore it should have a final say in the appointment of who runs it . |
| 19 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 20 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 21 | IT SHOULD have been a good week . |
| 22 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 23 | It should have been ‘ useless slaughter ’ . |
| 24 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 25 | NATO 's politicians and defence planners are struggling to agree on what threats Europe now faces and on what sort of common defences it should have in future . |
| 26 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 27 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 28 | So our problem is understanding why it should have ever occurred to God that we needed redeeming , saving , restoring , in such a radical way . |
| 29 | Some dealers and collectors were not above altering or even removing the genuine patina and treating the surface to give the appearance they felt it should have had . |
| 30 | What remains unexplained is why it should have been necessary for the Deutschland to go aground , so preventing the nuns from continuing their service to God . |