Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 2 | In fiction , he thought , Alice and I should have been tormented by our joint knowledge , distrustful , guilt-ridden , unable to live apart yet miserable together . |
| 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 | We should have been taking French or English , or something . |
| 5 | The UK took the view that it should have been based on Article 100 of the Treaty of Rome ( general harmonisation of national laws ) , which requires unanimity ( in which case the adverse vote of the UK could have prevented the Directive being adopted ) . |
| 6 | The dumb bastard who dreamed that one up should have been strung up by his balls . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , if the treatment really worked I should have been Elastoplasted all over . |
| 8 | If the treatment really worked I should have been elastoplasted all over . |
| 9 | He was the town naughty boy all right , and it was incongruous that he should have been named Wesley . |
| 10 | She says the women in the Donnellan case should have been named as should all alleged rape victims when their case comes to court . |
| 11 | David says : ‘ I felt I should have been dressed there as a man . |
| 12 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |
| 13 | For indeed they are not , and it is understandable that they should have been made . |
| 14 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 15 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
| 16 | The appropriate comparison should have been made by following through a cohort who would have been exposed by the accident . |
| 17 | A new breakthrough should have been made in mid-1989 , when the track was used as a theme to the Jeff Goldblum/Rowan Atkinson movie The Tall Guy , in which Suggs made an appearance . |
| 18 | ‘ By rights they should have been made on Stir-up Sunday , only I was too busy . |
| 19 | This person should have been made to feel the full weight of the law . ’ |
| 20 | It makes provision for monetary compensation to be paid to any person to whom an offer should have been made but was not , and who has suffered loss . |
| 21 | Churning is not good for buyers though : endowments are meant to be long-term investments , and it should have been made clear to you when you bought the policy that you would lose out if you cashed in before the end of the agreed term , which is typically , 25 years . |
| 22 | ‘ Today 's statement should have been made by Michael Heseltine , not a law officer . |
| 23 | Although the game against the All Blacks was entertaining , the flaws in the Boks line-up were evident to see and changes should have been made for the following encounter with the World Champions . |
| 24 | The people of England should have been made aware of the significance of the match . |
| 25 | The first point to make is that this is the same book as originally published in 1974 and retrospectively numbered ‘ 36 ’ in the series — we feel this should have been made clear by titling it ‘ Revised Edition ’ in the style previously followed . |
| 26 | This money should have been made available anyway . |
| 27 | If B 's complaint were that an attempt should have been made to invoke the Gallagher jurisdiction when his appeal was before the House of Lords , then it is long out of time . |
| 28 | Finally , the question arises whether this application should have been made to the Court of Appeal . |
| 29 | He suggests , for example , that instead of making a care order an interim care order should have been made with a view to reviewing the progress of rehabilitation in six or nine months time . |
| 30 | The Court was surprised that those suggestions should have been made , and the Court owed it to its members and to all concerned to make it clear that no attempt had been made by anyone directly or indirectly , otherwise than in open court , to influence its decision . |