Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 2 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 3 | The majority communists forced a vote through the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet on Nov. 14 to strip Khmara of his parliamentary immunity from prosecution , despite the fact that the lack of a quorum should have made the vote invalid . |
| 4 | I should have made the connection sooner , given that the company was called Airborne Plc , but nobody 's perfect . |
| 5 | The date by which all supplies should have met the Directive 's standard was July 1985 , but little was done in the UK as the government hoped to negotiate a laxer standard . |
| 6 | It was a coincidence that , once again , Branson should have met the object of his romantic attentions at the Manor , early in 1976 . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose we should have to ask the French for help . |
| 8 | This huge increase should have allayed the peasants ' suspicions of the new regime , but this was hot the case . |
| 9 | The jury has been told that locking pins which should have secured the gantry had failed . |
| 10 | Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question : what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way ? |
| 11 | When I explained , he said , ‘ You should have kept the money . |
| 12 | My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity . |
| 13 | He should have kept the letter . |
| 14 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
| 15 | You shou , perhaps you should have kept the bag on it . |
| 16 | He should have kept the studio in time for some |
| 17 | ‘ You should have ambushed the beast when you had the chance , ’ croaked Ferd . |
| 18 | Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) found evidence of the extinction effect in only two of their six experiments and were able to offer no very convincing account of why these two studies ( which used a somewhat different test procedure from that used in the others ) should have generated the result they did . |
| 19 | When she later challenged the EP she was told she should have contacted the Education Welfare Officer ( EWO ) designated by the LEA as being the ‘ named person ’ . |
| 20 | Leaving aside the problem of what time period to specify , we should have to ransack the libraries of the world to find a complete list of published works written during the period . |
| 21 | Oh , she should have paid more attention to him when they lay close ; she should have absorbed the hollows and smoothness of his brow and learned him by heart . |
| 22 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 23 | The Reds won the war because they had a good , disciplined army and also because the Whites could not co-ordinate their attacks , due to poor communications and were consequently defeated by the Reds without half the trouble they should have caused the Reds . |
| 24 | Seaman should have saved the first goal , but did make a two world class saves against Berkamp and Rikaard . |
| 25 | Even before Bruce 's penalty miss however , Mark Hughes should have saved the game for Manchester when heading a great chance wide in the 67th minute from another Giggs cross . |
| 26 | By early next week each of the 400 members of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers , the self-regulatory organisation for com modities , should have received the latest proposal from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission for ending the wrangle over London firms doing business for American clients . |
| 27 | By law , Paul should have received the directorship of the theatre and the rest of Dinah 's inheritance ; but as things stood , it was impossible , and she continued to administer the estate . |
| 28 | He concluded , however , that it was not a necessary precondition of a restitutionary order under section 6(2) or of a remedial order under section 61(1) that the person against whom the order was made , whether the contravener or the person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the contravention , should have received the money or property ordered to be restored to the investor . |
| 29 | ‘ You should have shut the stable door so the damn horse do n't bolt . ’ |
| 30 | We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial . |