Sentence examples for should have acted as from inspiring English sources

Tejay van Garderen should have acted as a second foil to the Australian but was not in form.

AlphaGo's defeat of a European Go champion in October last year – an achievement many thought was at least a decade away – should have acted as a warning.

Ozzy's precarious health, which caused him to have tremors during my interview, should have acted as a deterrent, but it didn't.

I remember feeling no great joy at the problems faced by David Mellor and Tim Yeo as they admitted affairs – but these should have acted as warnings to me.

This in itself should have acted as a warning sign given that euphoria as an emotion tends to dissipate quite quickly and subsequently be followed by either melancholy or depression.

Even though no cases of liver failure occurred, some of the abnormal test readings were so extremely high that they should have acted as a red flag to both the company and the federal agency, she said.

President Clinton should have acted earlier in those cases, as he himself has acknowledged.

Sure, because they were probably thinking emotionally, but politically he acted responsibility and as any governor should have acted".

Labour says he should have acted sooner and a European commissioner warned the UK risked being seen as "nasty".

Harman and Dromey should have acted sooner.

It admitted it should have acted "faster".