Example sentences of "[modal v] have [adv] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever a student should have regularly attended an entire course of study , and should have passed an examination before the college and its Professors , he should obtain a certificate … an infirmary , in which diseased horses and other cattle might be received … a forge for farriery would be equally necessary … |
| 2 | ‘ Since the production and circulation of commodities are the general prerequisites of the capitalist mode of production , division of labour in manufacture requires that a division of labour within society should have already attained a certain degree of development ’ ( 1976 , p. 473 ) . |
| 3 | Family health services authorities should have already identified a lead officer for research and development . |
| 4 | The man who did must have just got a kick out of it . |
| 5 | As a child in wartime London I must have unconsciously sought a hobby that had nothing of death in it — something that was all beauty . |
| 6 | JASON Livingston 's future in athletics looks even more bleak following his reported newspaper ‘ confession ’ that he must have inadvertently taken a banned steroid before the Olympics . |
| 7 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
| 8 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |
| 9 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 10 | But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs . |
| 11 | The life which Jesus advocated must have necessarily had an appeal to men rather than to women , for it would in many cases have put women in an impossible position . |
| 12 | So , well they must have like done a deal and said right , we 'll not put radios in or summat , you know we 'll |
| 13 | Theda had shoved it on so hastily that she must have carelessly left a little hair visible . |
| 14 | ‘ He might have just taken a walk and got lost , ’ said Pascoe without conviction . |
| 15 | Reports suggested that Lekhanya might have successfully forestalled a coup attempt — Radio Lesotho reported that a large cache of arms had been found at the home of Lt.-Col. Sekhobe Letsie . |
| 16 | Last year it might have hard-headedly encouraged a negotiated partition . |
| 17 | As a private activity there could be no objection to Christian members calling their fellow-believers to prayer , and I suppose that I and fellow-members of the British Humanist Association could have similarly organized a non-official meeting . |
| 18 | Though Young could have reasonably expected a bishopric , he was repeatedly passed over and in 1626 apparently offered £15,000 for the vacant see of Winchester . |
| 19 | But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture . |
| 20 | But it is unlikely that the ICC could have successfully mounted an exercise to codify contract rules governing commercial agency agreements , though a Working party of the ICC 's Commission on International Commercial practice under the chair-manship of professor Fabio Bortolotti has successfully completed a model form of agency contract for international trade and is proceeding with work on a model distribution contract . |
| 21 | Tranmere came back with a goal from sub Chris Malkin and could have easily snatched a draw . |
| 22 | There was a time — 1987 , to be specific — when IBM could have easily made a shambles of the mainframe leasing business , decimated makers of IBM-compatible equipment and put its large systems on the road to rapid growth . |
| 23 | he could have easily used a disc cutter , but they 're not easy of pleasant to use in situations like this . |
| 24 | I sought my tutor in his arid rooms , Who told me , ‘ You 'd have only got a third . ’ |
| 25 | Had we sold our house two years ago , we 'd have certainly made an offer on a property that I later realised was quite unsuitable . |
| 26 | And er I like to think that if you 'd bought a nice full-nose Morris in nineteen forty five , and you wanted a replacement in nineteen ninety , you 'd have still got a reasonable Metro would n't you ? |
| 27 | If care proceedings arise from a s37 investigation ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) it should be remembered that the court may have already made a first interim order when making the direction . |
| 28 | As the largest music distributor in the USA , Kaman are already responsible for Takamine and Hamer guitars as well as Ovation , the original synthetic bowl-back guitar that Charles Kaman himself invented back in 1966 ( some readers may have already spotted a close connection between Ovation and Trace Acoustic in ads featuring players like Adrian Legg and Robert Fripp ) . |
| 29 | Some may have previously had a miscarriage or an infant who died . |
| 30 | In any case , they may have desperately wanted a family and have been surprised themselves by the effect which the newcomer has had — and to admit error in this respect may again be difficult . |