Example sentences of "there should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there should have been a Navy League , a Tariff Reform League , and an Anti-Socialist Union filled with Conservatives was an indication that there were many Conservative supporters who felt that the Conservative party was not doing its job properly . |
| 2 | Maeve Sherlock , the NUS president , said yesterday : ‘ We are unhappy at the outcome of the PCA investigation and remain convinced there should have been a full independent inquiry . |
| 3 | There should have been shouting and huge double-edged swords slicing the air , and giant bonfires with wild , roaring flames . |
| 4 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 5 | There should have been a yellow one too but the bulb had gone . |
| 6 | By now , with the reception well under way , there should have been a roar of tipsy conversation and laughter . |
| 7 | There should have been real mountains , or no mountains at all . |
| 8 | An arm came loose and fell off , revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament , bone and muscle . |
| 9 | The European Court held the refusal was a breach of his right to a private and family life , since the file was the major record of his childhood , and there should have been an independent body which could override an improper refusal of consent . |
| 10 | On a comparison of populations there should have been 4,500 houses built in Derry but only 3,000 had , in fact , been built . |
| 11 | I think it would have been nice to announce the passing of these old trams ; there should have been a farewell trip on the Promenade ’ . |
| 12 | Given the range of institutions and the varying sets of social relations involved , it does not seem surprising that there should have been an increase in the diversity of local politics . |
| 13 | The result in viewers ' minds can have been little other than confusion and fear , instead of the excitement that there should have been . |
| 14 | Changez 's left arm was withered in some way , and stuck on the end of the attenuated limb was a lump of hard flesh the size of a golf ball , a small fist , with only a tiny thumb projecting from the solid mass where there should have been nimble , shop-painting , box-carrying fingers . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not being critical of our unions , but there should have been marketing people approaching the corporates even during the World Cup ’ , he says . |
| 16 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 17 | There should have been no room in his universe for sub-divine but super-human powers , other than devils or angels ; however the senders of Scyld seem supernatural in knowledge and purpose , while showing no interest in the inhabitants of Denmark 's souls . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyone accused of murder is regarded as a danger to the public and there should have been more control here , ’ said a senior City police officer . |
| 19 | I felt there should have been more self-control . |
| 20 | Charlie said there should have been markers to show the jockeys where to switch from the steeplechase course to the proper course . |
| 21 | There should have been a full house at Manchester for the Davis Cup , there was n't . |
| 22 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 23 | There should have been a better backcloth , something that smacked more of the dramatic and less of the bare ordinariness of these humble homes . |
| 24 | There should have been gloves and protective goggles and face masks to field the resin and varnish dust . |
| 25 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 26 | If that was where Harry had died , there should have been a big area quarantined off with tape . |
| 27 | There should have been a lifespan of twenty years for H3 , but other priorities had been higher , and every four years since 1973 there had been a doctoring of the patient , a new lick of paint on the inside , an attempt to reinforce the roofing against damp , new wiring to carry the power of the computer that ran their lives . |
| 28 | There should have been a nice young man on the Sunningdale marriage circuit , and then a nice house in Ascot , and probably a cottage in Devon , and two boys at a good preparatory school in Surrey . |
| 29 | There were ten tables , so there should have been ten runners , but only three started . |
| 30 | He states however that the fuel was computed at that point and it was determined that there should have been 1,300 lbs remaining on arrival over Goose Bay , giving a reserve of twenty-five to twenty-seven minutes holding at 20,000 feet altitude . |