Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experts should have made stronger protests while the working group was still sitting . |
| 2 | The amount of people crammed into offices out here , they should have built longer trains . |
| 3 | Erm , push that yellow down , , erm , so let push it down there , ah , not hard enough , because the black should have gone nearer to the red . |
| 4 | If such low citations were offset by high publication rates for thesis-derived research , then they should have achieved higher rankings in the table above . |
| 5 | Wyvis Hall , logically , should have looked smaller to Adam but it did not , it looked much larger . |
| 6 | But routine screening of milk for contaminants should have disclosed higher lead levels by mid-October . |
| 7 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 8 | He poured the wine and said , ‘ It should have had longer … ’ |
| 9 | But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping . |
| 10 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 11 | I should have taken better care of you . ’ |
| 12 | But as they flourished , so this food must have become scarcer . |
| 13 | Some clearly belonged to relatively small domestic and workshop premises , but others must have adorned larger private houses and official or religious complexes . |
| 14 | In 1954 it was a long journey by rail from Glasgow to Paris , and it must have seemed longer to me . |
| 15 | Here he must have had further contact with Scott , who became Surveyor to the Fabric of the Abbey in 1846 , particularly in connection with the Broad Sanctuary houses , which Scott built on the Abbey 's land between 1852 and 1854 . |
| 16 | Saroj Lal , director of Lothian Racial Equality Council , said , however , that Mr McNeill 's comments might have caused greater harm than could be offset by an apology . |
| 17 | AFTER lunching with Tory candidate Simon Fowler attacking Frank Cook 's 881 Labour majority in Stockton North last Tuesday 's Diary suggested that the sandwiches at the Centenary in Norton might have seen better days . |
| 18 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 19 | That in turn might have given wider diplomatic and political options a chance . |
| 20 | Creggan might have stayed longer but that he became aware of a man silhouetted on the skyline . |
| 21 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 22 | They might have gone higher but this is a matter of principle . |
| 23 | Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges . |
| 24 | Later abolitionists exemplified in Buxton and Cropper , though it might have seemed easier for them to adopt antislavery as a routine , not only maintained vital feeling in their commitment but possessed sufficient accompanying serenity — ‘ we have more than human help ’ — to accommodate setbacks and ‘ to triumph over the storms which surround them ’ . |
| 25 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 26 | Songs My Mother Taught Me , by Martin Dalby , opened the concert and this may have been a planning mistake , for its moony , relaxed idiom with little rhythmic excitement might have fared better later on . |
| 27 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 28 | The prognostic value of this parameter might have been higher if the follow up of our patients had been longer , since some of the patients with high upper crypt labelling indeces who did not relapse might have experienced later recurrences . |
| 29 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 30 | In their accompaniments , the strings could have contributed greater warmth and colour — particularly by using more vibrato . |