Example sentences of "[noun prp] should have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 2 | Now on form Swindon should have walked this game against Brighton and that 's just what they were doing … strolling when the seagulls went flying into the lead after just six minutes … good goal for Mark Gall he took the chance well . |
| 3 | They were certainly too much for a dismal Everton outfit and Chelsea should have had more goals as they eased on to the heels of the leading Premier League pack . |
| 4 | The information on this project provided by the IDA and the IIRS should have provided sufficient assurance to those concerned regarding the plant suitability and safety for the area . |
| 5 | It was incredible , he continued , that a king who had established the Presbyterian religion in Scotland and was willing to establish the Catholic religion in Ireland should have had insurmountable scruples about the ecclesiastical constitution of England . |
| 6 | One of the Liverpool goals was lucky , Deane should have had 3 penalties , the ref got a lot of stick from the Leeds fans , etc . |
| 7 | This appalled Mrs Browning , who said at once that it was God using her as an instrument and that Wilson should have had more faith . |
| 8 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 9 | It seems rather more than fortuitous that Franco should have chosen this spot , for it was only 10 kilometres from the imposing palace , monastery and royal pantheon of El Escorial , built by Philip II in the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 11 | By rights Oxford should have won last night … |
| 12 | Crawford wrote to the committee responding to their charges , and their reaction cam in terms probably familiar to many professional cricketers dealing with committees of enthusiasts : ‘ Mr Crawford should have shown more enthusiasm in his work , but the committee is willing to overlook past shortcomings on the understanding that improvement is shown . |
| 13 | Mind you , perhaps Ferrari should have taken more notice of Mario a lot earlier , but 1971 and 1972 were indifferent Ferrari years . |