Example sentences of "[modal v] have happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am terribly sorry this should have happened and I sincerely hope that we hear from them . |
| 2 | It is ironic that this should have happened under a Government so strongly committed to decentralisation , privatisation and the reduction of the role of the state . |
| 3 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 4 | With the benefit of fifteen years ’ experience and from the security of a university in Britain , it is possible to pronounce with considerable confidence upon what should have happened ; to comment owlishly on how untidy and illogical were the processes employed , how more information should have been spelt out with more precision , how more evaluation should have been undertaken sooner , how unreal were our expectations in terms of how quickly and how evenly changes can effectively take place . |
| 5 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 6 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 7 | But it never should have happened . |
| 8 | In a discussion group at the school concerned , a teacher asked the kids why this should have happened between two friends . |
| 9 | You surely must realize that I could n't take the responsibility … if anything should have happened to his daughter … ’ |
| 10 | Apart from having limited time to try and spread the gospel about the tournament in its magnificent venue , if , as should have happened , Jimmy Connors had played , if John McEnroe had survived his first round , if Pat Cash had looked better prepared and if , as certainly should have been the case , Jeremy Bates had taken the opportunity he had to upset Wimbledon quarter finalist , Thierry Champion , the whole picture may have looked so different . |
| 11 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 12 | There were particular reasons why this should have happened at Cambridge . |
| 13 | It is curious that it should have happened , that Michel came upon the scene the very instant she was really free for the first time in her life . |
| 14 | Nor can it explain why indeed the change should have happened at all : why did the speakers not simply retain /a:/ ? |
| 15 | It had all seemed part of the wonder : that it should have happened just this Jubilee summer . |
| 16 | What should have happened is that the soft , natural gold would be spiked by the pin … what actually happened was that the nugget was pinged out into the river like a tiddly wink . |
| 17 | And if there is anything that you want to discuss with your adviser , positive or negative later , you can go back to your report , say well this is what should have happened , and can you explain what is happening ? |
| 18 | There 's no point deliberating on whether it should have happened or not . |
| 19 | When Erich Honecker gave his last big speech many people regretted the fact that there was n't a hint of sadness about all the things that had gone wrong in the past 40 years , all the changes that should have happened and never did — nor , finally , any regrets about the many people who fled the country . |
| 20 | No response , he was hugging it to his chest , something should have happened . |
| 21 | Step 3 : Test the model resulting from step 2 for artificial constraints and any misstatements of logic and produce a new cost and time model representing what should have happened during the performance of the contract . |
| 22 | Yes but that 's I think that Desmond 's quite right , what should have happened was just as Emmy said to me originally , you keep your sewing money separate . |
| 23 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
| 24 | ‘ Something that should have happened weeks ago , ’ she snapped . |
| 25 | That 's what should have happened . |
| 26 | The British Horse Society is anxious to find out why a third of them should have happened in this year alone . |
| 27 | It went on to say it 's a sad reflection on the Criminal Justice system and on society today that this should have happened . |
| 28 | But neither the goal , nor our collapse , should have happened . ’ |
| 29 | She had decided what must have happened to him , why he was taking so long to return , and why she could never recall his face . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , that 's what must have happened . |