Example sentences of "[noun sg] should have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | In retrospect it looks odd that such a massive Conservative majority should have sustained such an ineffective ex-Labour Prime Minster for so long . |
| 3 | His analysis was a taste of what is to come from the Left : Labour should have promised drastic defence cuts to pay for its spending plans . |
| 4 | The agent might , for example , be at fault if in the circumstances the consent could be taken as sufficient evidence that the agent has power to consent ( i.e. , that there were reasons for holding the consent valid ) and the agent should have realized this . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 6 | There is one for every school , of course , and this psychologist should have had more training in perceptual handicaps than an ordinary classroom teacher , and should be available to help assess the child and give advice to teachers and parents about how to help them . |
| 7 | The address for Antique Designs Ltd printed in the March issue should have read 277 Little Road , SW6 . |
| 8 | But by the same token , the girl should have had more sense than to walk along a road like that in the dark . |
| 9 | Crocombe should have taken this as a bad omen , but did not , carrying on to Karachi . |
| 10 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 11 | The court said that the expert should have remained aloof from the tactical discussions . |
| 12 | The council should have stopped these dealings when the district auditor began to question their legality in the summer of 1988 , but the new options were taken out between then and 23 February this year , when the council decided to cease making payments on the transactions . |
| 13 | He says that the pub should have remained black and white . |
| 14 | He says that the pub should have remained black and white . |
| 15 | There is no earthly reason why the Community should have harmonised social benefits . |
| 16 | It was something to do with Dana ; what was n't so clear was why Roman should have sounded upset because Dana had n't told her herself . |
| 17 | ‘ The General should have received another dose of fertizol to stimulate his brood cycle for his next assignment . |
| 18 | Villa were quicker and slicker ; their manager , Ron Atkinson , reckoned his team should have scored 6 or more . |
| 19 | One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The court should have read written statements of the evidence and any expert reports before the hearing ( FPCR , r21(1) ; FPR , r4.21(1) ) . |
| 22 | Why this control procedure should have attenuated latent inhibition is not clear , but evidently the presence of S2 can have this effect even when it is not ( as is required by current theories ) presented immediately after S1 . |
| 23 | ‘ I an sorry that a well-respected body such as the Wolfson Foundation should have taken this step ’ says Major General Leslie Busk , director-general of the British Heart Foundation and chairman of the Association of Medical Research Charities . |
| 24 | This paper should have suggested many lines of worthwhile investigation , and observations of real populations on the shore will undoubtedly throw up others , but it may be helpful to list some topics here . |
| 25 | In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them . |
| 26 | The preservation of the status quo was also Nicholas 's prime concern with regard to central and western Europe , though here , paradoxically , his policy should have involved much more fighting than it did . |
| 27 | The one reservation about the recording is that he was not advised to lean or step back a fraction on climactic high notes , which in consequence are disproportionately emphatic ( e.g. in Minnelied im Mai or the rapturous Frühlingslied ) and almost in danger of blasting : the recording supervisor should have watched this more carefully . |
| 28 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 29 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 30 | The members of the branch were indignant that the government should have planted two spies among them . |