Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must 've had to be very careful then when he was slaughtering the animals if he was a haemo |
| 2 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 3 | Oh , how I should have liked to be you ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 5 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 6 | In 1945 I worked hard at my Higher School Certificate subjects of English , French , and history — the Tudors and Stuarts , of course — and tried to decide whether I should have preferred to be Thomas Wolsey or Thomas More . |
| 7 | It is something of an accident that the mythical protagonists of the two points of view should have come to be represented as Darwin and Huxley on the one side and Wilberforce on the other . |
| 8 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 9 | Certainly , by now , we should have learned to be cautious about simplified statements which attempt to outline the central features of ‘ the family in modern society ’ . |
| 10 | I knew Gail Benson slightly when she was a schoolgirl , and remember a pretty moon face , big eyes , a freckled complexion deepening to russet , dark hair parted down the middle — a nut-brown maid and modern miss who must have wanted to be away from the French Lycée in South Kensington , shy , uneasy , wound-up . |
| 11 | General Holomisa , the first black officer to graduate from the South African army 's War College , must have seemed to be the perfect instrument , or stooge , of such a policy . |
| 12 | I think she must have longed to be coaxed out of it . |
| 13 | You 'll have to learn to be grateful just to bear my name … |
| 14 | ‘ You might have wanted to be alone . ’ |
| 15 | It would have been handled , she knew , with all the caution that the dust from the moon had been , since it might have proven to be toxic as any of the man-made monstrosities aboard Titron . |
| 16 | Although he might have seemed to be a committed Cromwellian , Blackwell like Deane supported the Wallingford House faction , led by Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert [ q.v. ] , who were responsible for the overthrow of Richard Cromwell [ q.v. ] as protector and the return of the Rump in May 1659 . |
| 17 | Since all three have been to Tokyo and back last weekend to help Milan win the World Club Championship , they might have expected to be rested . |
| 18 | Since all three have been to Tokyo and back last weekend to help Milan win the World Club Championship , they might have expected to be rested . |
| 19 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 20 | By that time he could have arranged to be called away . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have arranged to be there when he called … none of this would have happened if I 'd been there to take care of her . ’ |
| 22 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 23 | If you ask me , The Smiths could have afforded to be more humorless . |
| 24 | At independence , the two were relatively young — Mboya in his early thirties , and Odinga in his forties — and could have expected to be considered as candidates for the presidency in the years to come . |
| 25 | As far as is known practical tests of centrifugal launchers were never undertaken , and with hindsight it is difficult to imagine that they could have proved to be a practical notion , requiring large structures and imposing high stresses on man and machinery . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think I 'd have cared to be represented by two images in the same picture . |
| 27 | Gillian and I were falling in love and you 'd think we 'd have wanted to be by ourselves all the time , gazing into one another 's eyes and holding hands and going to bed together . |
| 28 | I 'd have hated to be in your position , a purely physical attraction outweighing personal antipathy , so I just went along with your wishes . |
| 29 | ‘ If it had been me I 'd have learnt to be transmitted as microwaves by now , and bounced off Jupiter . |
| 30 | We 'd have had to be pretty stupid not to assume what we did . |