Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough .
2 Oh and , well it must 've been since we were at Malton so we 'd 've had it , what , about four three or four years when we went to Malton ?
3 It must 've been while I was stood up there .
4 well where was I ? , oh , must 've been when I went to the loo Have you had a drink Martin ?
5 Despite Leicester 's pressure the Tranmere goalkeeper was not as active as he should have been although his defence must take some credit for that .
6 There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students .
7 Robert knew that his stepdaughter would have a little inheritance , not as much as it should have been because that stubborn old woman had dipped into her capital to buy worthless stock , but it would be a nice little nest-egg all the same .
8 It it should have been because I put in .
9 The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes .
10 This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there .
11 Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today .
12 Then I noticed that Helen had n't much room by my side , so I stepped to the left to where the grating should have been and slid gracefully down into the cellar .
13 Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate .
14 Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) .
15 Yet there should have been if he had walked across that floor without his boots on .
16 I suppose there must have been but I ca n't remember .
17 It must have been after I moved . ’
18 Indeed , if it was not clear before she went to Australia , it must have been before she left , that only when she has once more played in The Championships — and preferably won the title — will people be ready to forgive and forget .
19 ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial …
20 In a sense it is all too easy in retrospect to see what it must have been that hurried Elizabeth to that early grave .
21 But the assumption must have been that before nineteen forty nine there was a lot of that going on
22 This must have been because it-was his now , he owned it .
23 The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation .
24 The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time .
25 The drive down was very straightforward until the last few miles ( it must have been because up until then we did n't get lost ) when we had a slight hitch and had to study the map a little more carefully .
26 He did not find Lawrence and Morris easy to reconcile but since " the House in R v Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Lawrence 's case , there must have been because [ the victim ] , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the [ accused ] taking anything in excess of [ what was agreed ] .
27 ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean .
28 I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front .
29 There was a Bede , Natura Rerum , in which the blues seemed still as intense as they must have been when first painted .
30 How glorious it must have been when its mosaic , created in 1371 by Venetians using Bohemian glass , was newly installed .
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