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Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Iris would actually and maybe what we should do is buy a diary
2	The first thing you should do is to prepare a breakdown .
3	The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead .
4	The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle .
5	‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’
6	Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there .
7	He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal .
8	Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack .
9	and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal .
10	Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman .
11	1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been .
12	First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 .
13	Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals .
14	It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire .
15	In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out .
16	‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’
17	The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein .
18	It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’
19	She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms .
20	‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her .
21	He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool .
22	First , D must have been committing a crime .
23	‘ And somewhere , ’ Husband said , ‘ Mrs Howard must have been keeping a file on Gustav Eismark .
24	Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more .
25	‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’
26	That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear .
27	In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something .
28	She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK .
29	‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’
30	Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man .