Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] the [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It would seem , therefore , that the Reverend R Fletcher must have been the pastor of the English Primitive congregation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At such a moment , creation is of the utmost importance , and is central to everything , so strong must have been the mingling of emotions . |
| 20 | They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression . |
| 21 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 22 | The memorial marks a striking turnabout in the men 's approach to composing machines , which must have been the result of a fairly recent appreciation of the double threat posed by women Monotype operators . |
| 23 | Since average yields on non-irrigated land could not rise much above fivefold the seed , the increase must have been the result of extending the cultivated area by ploughing marginal land : Jovellanos in the eighteenth century , Fermin Caballero in the 1850's , and the Report on the agricultural crisis of 1887 all accuse the farmer of ploughing up more than he could maintain in cultivation . |
| 24 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 25 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 26 | It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen . |
| 27 | Doone , with his promise of instant detection once I woke up , must have been the end of hope . |
| 28 | I think it must have been the end of a beautiful friendship . |
| 29 | The first stage must have been the re-establishment of Eadwine 's Humbrian confederacy to embrace Lindsey , for example , over which Oswald certainly established himself as a conqueror ( HE 111 , 11 ) , and to bring the Mercians back into a dependent relationship ; and the second to restore Eadwine 's position of dominance in southern England . |
| 30 | In passing it may be observed that journeymen and apprentices were seldom specified , although this must have been the status of many of the servants that were listed . |