Example sentences of "[modal v] have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Saturn is the planet of melancholics , and Renaissance philosophers discovered that the emancipated artists of their time should have the characteristics of the Saturnine temperament ; they were contemplative , meditating , brooding , solitary , creative . ’
2 Among those closest who should have been frightened was Annie , his girl for a while .
3 Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father .
4 A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation .
5 They should have a provisional card for Equity at the beginning of their career .
6 You mean that drama students who are graduating from training should have the chance to join Equity ?
7 Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) .
8 I should have thought that is part of the reality with which legislators are faced , part of the situation within which they operate .
9 However , he wrote , for that very reason , the right hand side should have been even more solid , even more thought through than the left .
10 I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started .
11 It should have been done sooner , he wrote , but the truth is it would always have been too late .
12 After a couple of weeks in a cool place the beer should have cleared and be ready for drinking .
13 I AM staggered that Frances Bissell should have chosen to praise the Academy of Culinary Arts/Charles Heidsieck awards menu ( Caterer & Hotelkeeper , 22–28 August ) .
14 Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't .
15 I should have known better .
16 You should have heard her when she got that craze for Vegetarianism and Bernard Shaw .
17 ‘ Parysatis did it with a chicken and I should have thought of it before . ’
18 ‘ Maybe I should have stayed and fought ? ’
19 I watched a world that should have been behind glass and yet I was the one who was behind glass and reality was theirs .
20 So if you 're in an area where there are other apple trees , you should have no problem .
21 Come next spring , you should have lots of new young plants — and all for free !
22 Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come
23 Long before going solo the student should have learned the mnemonic by heart .
24 However , it should have been obvious to the pilot , and to everyone at the launch point , that with either a swing or a wing-drop there would almost certainly be a collision .
25 Provided that there is normal acceleration on take-off , the pilot should have good aileron control and be able to stop any swing into the wind by means of the rudder .
26 All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible .
27 For a start , novice pilots should have some experience of aerotowing in single-seaters before converting to types which are not fitted with a nose hook , and gliders intended for inexperienced pilots should always be manufactured with a nose hook for aerotowing .
28 Pilots should have experience at flying on the Turn and Slip indicator before using an Artificial Horizon , so that they can manage if the Horizon topples or becomes unusable .
29 Once clear of the ground , most gliders are very similar to each other and you should have no problems .
30 It should meet BS 5446 Part 1 or it should have the Kitemark on it .
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