Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 2 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 3 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 4 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 5 | I felt there should have been more self-control . |
| 6 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |
| 7 | There should have been either detriment to the plaintiff , or benefit to the defendant : 1 Selwyn 's N.P. 45 ( 9th ed . ) . |
| 8 | ‘ The next step should have been some form of close supervision . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 10 | It is therefore slightly ironic that it should have been this same Meistersinger which now finally stirred his feelings to the point where any " healthy " critical stance became impossible . |
| 11 | A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’ |
| 12 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 13 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 14 | The other cause for concern is the opt-out on the Social Chapter and some have said that should have been enough to cause us to reject Maastricht . |
| 15 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 16 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 17 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 19 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 20 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 21 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |
| 22 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 23 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 24 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 25 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 26 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 27 | There must have been many different ways for brachiopods to exploit their simple mode of life . |
| 28 | There must have been many daughters like Margaret White , who described in the 1590s how she stayed on living with her widowed father , ‘ guided him and his household , and was continually with him in his sickness until his death ’ . |
| 29 | From that time which here and elsewhere has been vaguely defined as the dawn of civilisation , to the time when the need to have a ‘ god ’ had reached the point where traces of its implementation were left for modern man to find , must have been many thousands of years . |
| 30 | Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century . |