Example sentences of "should have [verb] " in BNC.

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31 Sharp possibly should have scored in 1st half .
32 Luton had the best of the chances … should have scored at least one … thankfully Swindon managed to escape with a point …
33 Villa were quicker and slicker ; their manager , Ron Atkinson , reckoned his team should have scored 6 or more .
34 He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick .
35 Highfield came back strongly and should have scored in front of the posts but lost possession their hooker was held up on the line , their only reward was a penalty from their captain Terry Dillon .
36 Lennox should have scored in the 75th minute when McLaughlin 's long-range strike was pushed onto the post by O'Shea , but with an open goal in front of him , Lennox sliced his shot into the side netting .
37 But suddenly Northern Ireland began to lose their grip as the Albanians came forward and captain Sulyman Demmollari should have scored when goalkeeper Tommy Wright missed a cross .
38 McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) .
39 They possibly should have scored more tries , but as against England , the Welsh defended very well . ’
40 Yeah they got away with murder there , that looked very very iffy whether it was offside , the linesman did n't give it , the really should have scored .
41 Mark Edrich should have scored when they put through by Cooper , and Cooper made it four one a minute later .
42 Mark Edwards for Bicester should have scored after good work by John Thorne and Barry Cooper , but he only half hit his shot and keeper Whittington saved .
43 And from a corner the visitor 's Leach saved full length , and Mark West should have scored when he lobbed it back , but Peak headed behind for a corner , this was all very very hectic indeed .
44 It is unreasonable that local health authorities should have to compare routine needs — for hernia operations , or knee and hip joint operations — with the problems surrounding experimental surgery , of which they must have no direct knowledge .
45 Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space .
46 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 .
47 I believe the government should have conducted a proper and wide review into the role and duty of auditors , not just in the area covered by these orders , but also throughout the whole of industry .
48 It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas .
49 Well , in that case I think it 's fine as long as it 's our equipment , but I think the problems always arise from it being lent out , and that 's where I you know , I do n't think we should have to sort out other people 's problems .
50 Should have went in !
51 Treasury ideas are bound to be different , and should have to do with choice and with making markets work .
52 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 .
53 ‘ Robert ’ — he turned on his factor — ‘ you should have made it plain — ‘ Nothing is plain out there , I tell you .
54 Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society .
55 He believed that if ‘ 1 had played cricket as a ‘ gentleman ’ I should have made sufficient out of my ‘ expenses ’ to retire by now . ’
56 He dismissed Mr Crook 's argument that the judges should have made orders postponing publication until after the jury 's verdict , instead of excluding the press and public .
57 This approach , according to the standard thinking , should have made Poland 's producers more competitive .
58 It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army .
59 The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has .
60 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 .
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