Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning ships from the Falklands brought much detail about the campaign that should have been the stuff of correspondent 's reports in a democratic society . |
| 2 | I should have been the hero of the game but I will always be known as the one who lost it . |
| 3 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 4 | If a company chairman described trading as ‘ bad ’ in his address to the annual general meeting , and then later told an analyst it was ‘ very bad ’ , and if the analyst then advised clients to sell , would that be inside information which should have been the subject of a further statement to the Stock Exchange ? |
| 5 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 6 | That should have been the end of it . |
| 7 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 8 | It would seem from the pleadings to which I have referred that that should have been the end of the case . |
| 9 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 10 | It is no accident that Schickelgruber , the failed artist who became Hitler , should have been the son of a petty official and have spent his ambitions at the butt end of Viennese snobbery . |
| 11 | I truly feel Co Armagh should have been the winners of the Irish award as Cherry Orchard fully deserved the visiting award . |
| 12 | Yet nothing could be more surprising than that Sir Frederick Lugard should have been the father of Indirect Rule , a system of administration supposedly distinguished by the judicious delegation of authority . |
| 13 | It should have been the signal for a resounding runaway triumph in the second half especially after a Niall Quinn header also hit the woodwork . |
| 14 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 15 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 16 | I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code . |
| 17 | If this is how the British were feeling , how much more palpable must have been the sense of loss in the United States , how much more disturbing the feeling that something irreversible was taking place . |
| 18 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 19 | It would seem , therefore , that the Reverend R Fletcher must have been the pastor of the English Primitive congregation . |
| 20 | The vicar said that indeed if this had happened then it must have been the Devil in disguise . |
| 21 | The dark , brooding look about him , so daunting at their first meeting , was missing these days , replaced by a zest and animation she knew must have been the norm for Penry Vaughan before his marriage — or before his divorce , she corrected herself . |
| 22 | It remains another convincing saltire design , bordered by elaborate chain-guilloche : a mosaic which must have been the work of at least one craftsman who had experience at Verulamium and Colchester . |
| 23 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |
| 24 | ‘ I must have been the thorn between the roses , ’ he said , with some satisfaction . |
| 25 | To me , East 17 must have been the kind of streetwise cock-er-nee lads I 'd do my damnedest indie-kid best to avoid . |
| 26 | He must have been the tenant for , in 1812 , the mill had been bought by Peter Playne from the Wade family , in whose hands it had remained since around 1758 . |
| 27 | Such , one imagines , must have been the calibre of planning behind A history of nature ( Channel 4 , 16 January ) , another in the stunningly amateurish Crucible series on sciences in society . |
| 28 | At such a moment , creation is of the utmost importance , and is central to everything , so strong must have been the mingling of emotions . |
| 29 | It must have been the smoke from the stove . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been the wind in the trees , ’ suggested Betty . |