Example sentences of "[adj] should [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | A target of 128 should not have been beyond England , but four wickets went down for 15 and it was left to Gower and Botham to make a game of it . |
| 2 | That should n't have scared her . |
| 3 | ‘ That should n't have happened , ’ he said flatly . |
| 4 | ‘ That should n't have happened , ’ he informed her curtly . |
| 5 | That should not have happened . ’ |
| 6 | And this man came to the door , and he went to get the hold belt , that should just have a tape recorder on conversation just throughout the week so it 's getting all sorts of rubbish going in there , |
| 7 | Because on the basis of the economic models and the way which we look at determinants of demand in economics , this should n't have happened , we should have had the reverse , we should have had fewer holidays being taken and certainly fewer overseas holidays . |
| 8 | The court held that this should not have happened if due care had been used and the doctrine was applied . |
| 9 | Nicholas said , ‘ This should never have happened . ’ |
| 10 | This should never have happened . ’ |
| 11 | The inquest into the so-called friendly fire deaths has turned the spotlight on the Oxford coroner 's court … but many believe this should never have happened . |
| 12 | This suggests that Lotka 's Law has limitations at the extremes , but since the Law is related to Normal Distribution statistics , this should perhaps have been expected . |
| 13 | This suggests that Lotka 's Law has limitations at the extremes , but since the Law is related to Normal Distribution statistics , this should perhaps have been expected . |
| 14 | Oblivious should not have tacked here since he loses out to Smart . |
| 15 | By the unwritten laws of an unadmitted game , Six should never have sent a war-party into Five 's tribal land without at least telling the Co-ordinator . |
| 16 | The dwarf had been a mutant , and as such should not have been in Kinsai at all . |
| 17 | The Plowden Report recommended that ‘ Schools with an age range of 5–11 should usually have at least three classes , each covering two age ranges ’ , but by 1976 Lady Plowden , the chairman of the Committee producing the report , appeared to have altered her views , stating in a Border Television broadcast : ‘ Since the report I have come round to thinking that small country schools should be kept open because of the social value and because of the continuity of community involvement they provide . ’ ) |
| 18 | Rights such as these should not have been denied to the public . |
| 19 | Dangerous items such as these should never have found their way into household waste . |
| 20 | The sermon was regarded as an attack on the Revolution , since it implied that James II should not have been overthrown , and Sacheverell was impeached for a " malicious , scandalous and seditious libel " . |
| 21 | The fiscal year to December 31 1992 should actually have been a year of consolidation . |
| 22 | That book is all about the idea that the world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary , and that the extraordinary should n't have to live by the dictates of the mediocre majority . |
| 23 | Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that a person under the age of 18 should not have joined his unit in the Gulf ? |
| 24 | Again it was argued that the poor should not have to pay for their own ‘ welfare ’ out of hard-earned incomes . |
| 25 | 1 should not have let the three days expire . |
| 26 | But if he suffers to this extent by comparison with Barth , he towers over most other theologians of his generation ; and it is more than a little sad that two men so gifted and with so much in common should not have managed to remain closer to each other . |
| 27 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 28 | If our expectations are to be upheld these four should either have low OBS scores and be able to manage a good part of their own care , or they should have good support from other sources . |
| 29 | The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April . |
| 30 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |