Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 2 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 3 | He was associated with the Augustinian abbey of Scone and the Scottish chapel royal at Stirling ; the addition ‘ alias arnat ’ to his signature , which occurs three times in the manuscript , suggests that he may have been related to David Arnot , archdeacon of Lothian and later bishop of the chapel royal . |
| 4 | His parents have not been identified , though he may have been related to a family of Purneys in Buckinghamshire . |
| 5 | ‘ He may have been hoping to . |
| 6 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 7 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 8 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 9 | It was argued that he should have been sentenced to a term of detention in a young offender institution , and that he did not qualify for a custodial sentence for that purpose under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) . |
| 10 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 11 | If Ronald Kray really was as vile as he is herein depicted , he should have been put to death and swiftly forgotten . |
| 12 | His father , John Murphy , said he should have been taken to Durham Prison , where medical treatment which he said his son needed was available if necessary . |
| 13 | Dot thought that he must have been moved to a different hospital . |
| 14 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 15 | He referred to the Man City game which he must have been listening to on Manc Radio . |
| 16 | Another man who lived in modest circumstances was Thomas Harington of Ridlington , a non-landowner with only £7 in goods ; yet he must have been related to the squire , John Harington the younger , whose servant he was . |
| 17 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 18 | In another mood he might have been goaded to further efforts by her extremely obvious , even insulting , indifference , but now , if anything , he was inclined to give her credit for it . |
| 19 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 20 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 22 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |
| 23 | It would have depended on which hospital he 'd have been sent to . |
| 24 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 25 | Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it . |
| 26 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 27 | Even in the case of a regular wage-earner or salaried employee , there might be complications ; for example , the plaintiff might claim that he would have been promoted to a more remunerative post ( in which case the court must assess his prospects of promotion and award damages accordingly ) or the defendant may claim that the plaintiff 's employer had suffered severe business setbacks that necessitated redundancies and that the plaintiff would have lost his employment ( in which case the court must consider all the circumstances and award as damages what it estimates to have been the plaintiff 's net loss ) . |
| 28 | He would have been sliced to pieces by the fans down there . ’ |