Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should be minimal and in a well-designed unit all you should have to do is replace the tube every six months or so , if used continuously . |
| 2 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 3 | What you should have said is I hope everybody likes lumpy custard . |
| 4 | What I should have said was that there was no serious dispute among professionals of quality who had any discernment in such matters . |
| 5 | Go easy on the women , Henry had said ; whereas what he should have said was , ‘ Tell the women to keep off you . ’ |
| 6 | What he should have said was , ‘ It 's one small step for a man , ’ but he muffed his lines , as many an actor on a less impressive stage has done . |
| 7 | Without a shred of evidence he had employed an innuendo when what he should have said was that any normal English person could not but approve of the sight of young English lads in their uniforms , and would naturally pause to observe how they played a game . |
| 8 | Why Limulus alone should have survived is something of a mystery . |
| 9 | But one thing that the introduction of the original version should have highlighted is how a break-up and subsequent reconstruction of the text is possible in the first place . |
| 10 | Too many companies , says Mr Hammer , have used computers to automate existing tasks and procedures , when what firms should have done is to obliterate them . |
| 11 | Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck . |
| 12 | I er , look , erm , what I should have done is clarify what you 're doing here . |
| 13 | Actually , what you should have done is got Jo to carry it around with her cos she could have got some very interesting conversations . |
| 14 | Mr McCreary told the tribunal : ‘ As she was leaving my office , she said : ‘ I suppose what I should have done was take the time off sick anyway . |
| 15 | What Woody should have done was get divorced sooner . |
| 16 | What she should have done was obey the voice that told her to pass right along the car . |
| 17 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 18 | But what I should have done was measured that , that would have been about forty nine centimetres , this 'd be out maybe |
| 19 | My friends said she 's trouble and the last thing I should have done was let her move in and I was a bloody fool not to believe them . |
| 20 | What the hacks should have contemplated was the truly telling detail of Senna at race one in Phoenix . |
| 21 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 22 | In other words the protest would need to involve activity which , it could be fairly held , the protesters should have known was against the law . |
| 23 | Perhaps some employee neglected an inspection , perhaps some officer approved a design he should have known was faulty . |
| 24 | And the extra that they should have had is going to pay for these uniforms . |
| 25 | The very minimum I think these justices should have had was a psychiatric report from one of the psychiatrists who were attached to the secure unit . |
| 26 | What should have happened is that the soft , natural gold would be spiked by the pin … what actually happened was that the nugget was pinged out into the river like a tiddly wink . |
| 27 | Yes but that 's I think that Desmond 's quite right , what should have happened was just as Emmy said to me originally , you keep your sewing money separate . |
| 28 | The novel , as I should have thought was tolerably well known , first appeared serially in the Revue de Paris ; then came the prosecution for obscenity ; and only after the acquittal was the work published in book form . |
| 29 | The royal crest is used on the front of the annual report , which I should have thought was improper . |
| 30 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that one of the representations that he must have received was that from the Liberal Democrats advocating their policy of imposing an extra 50p a gallon on petrol ? |