Example sentences of "[modal v] have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you should 've all had where 's Matt , do you know where Matt 's gone ? |
| 2 | The Institute of Directors , the CBI and some chartered accountants in business are critical of the suggestion in Cadbury that non-executive directors should have much enhanced responsibilities to check and balance the power of the executive board . |
| 3 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |
| 4 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |
| 5 | He felt ashamed of her , and he could not work out why her mother should have such a smile on her face . |
| 6 | His RCM contact could not resist a snide comment : ‘ It is extraordinary that a boy of fifteen should have such a very high opinion of his capabilities . ’ |
| 7 | Serious Koi-keepers should have such a system installed as a matter of course , for if a fish falls sick in winter it will need to be gradually warmed up until its immune system again begins to function , and until the water temperature is high enough for medication to be effective . |
| 8 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a privilege ’ , wrote Allen , ‘ that the young men of our generation should have such an opportunity of bearing witness to the faith that is in them . ’ |
| 10 | I was amazed that someone should have such big ambitions for a group like ours , but the ideas were getting through and soon my own expectations increased . |
| 11 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 12 | ‘ A pear , ’ wrote Edward Bunyard , ‘ should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption . ’ |
| 13 | Thus Parliament clearly did not intend that a life sentence prisoner should have such rights in relation to the considerations of his release on licence . |
| 14 | Er I asked before the enquiry , at the pre-enquiry meeting , that I should have such er any additional representations before the start of the enquiry . |
| 15 | While ministers quite correctly point out that the act requires local consultation , it was surely not the intention of parliament that water undertakers should have such an absolute veto . |
| 16 | It 's astonishing to me that a boy whose father and grandfather have both been soldiers before him should have such a poorly developed sense of loyalty arid duty . " |
| 17 | It is a tribute to the makers of The Krays , to its director and cast , that it should have such a profound effect . |
| 18 | It seemed to me extraordinary that this man should have such immense authority in caste-ridden India ; yet no one has questioned his greatness . |
| 19 | There seems to have been very little resentment that Eva should have such a unique opportunity . |
| 20 | It was her opinion , she told Rory , that there was something awful funny going on , that this western city in the poorest part of a poor country should have such places , and such shops as they could see all round them , and such terrific style . |
| 21 | She guessed he was probably still staring after her , but she did n't care then about anything but the fact that he should have such a low opinion of her . |
| 22 | He had piercing blue eyes , hooded eyelids , a tanned , hard-boned face and a mouth so firm and uncompromising that Rachel felt a quiver go through her , a prickling of intense attraction , then , as her eyes flicked to Jenny , a sudden rush of envy that Jenny should have such a superb secret lover . |
| 23 | Commenting on our current series on education , he said ‘ I think that the series is an excellent idea ’ , but he then went on to say ‘ It does seem to me rather odd that such a series should have such a heavy university representation and so little input from the teachers ’ . |
| 24 | Otherwise , in the production and distribution of food we should have all the corresponding phenomena to those we actually have in housing : ten million family budgets based on artificially low rents ; the machinery of house production divided sharply into two , councils building to rent , companies building to sell ; the price of rented house-room a voting issue in local and parliamentary elections . |
| 25 | Following upon a letter written to Churchill by four senior cryptanalysts in Huts 6 and 8 complaining about lack of resources , the Prime Minister had ordered that on ‘ extreme priority ’ Bletchley should have all that it needed . |
| 26 | By the time the four of us meet up we should have all the fish in the pool between us . ’ |
| 27 | If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready . |
| 28 | No two nodes should have all their weights the same . |
| 29 | ‘ But nobody should have all their capital invested in one sector of the market , as you have . |
| 30 | It should have all been ready for him . |