Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other points that the intervention must stress are consistency and determination . |
| 2 | It should 've been Concorde . |
| 3 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 4 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 5 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 6 | ‘ It must 've been Helga . |
| 7 | The next English authority to which I must refer is Avon Finance Co . |
| 8 | Said Barrow : ‘ What we must do is take confidence from those results . |
| 9 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 10 | But , with the prospect of a GATT trade deal already clouded by Mr Clinton 's dithering , the last thing he should do is damage world economic relations further by failing to prevent an international tax war . |
| 11 | ‘ I did say to her that the man Andy should see was Giles Hawick himself . |
| 12 | Charlie said there should have been markers to show the jockeys where to switch from the steeplechase course to the proper course . |
| 13 | An arm came loose and fell off , revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament , bone and muscle . |
| 14 | Should have been ladies first , of course . |
| 15 | The headlines should have been KELLY KEEPS GIGGS IN HIS POCKET . |
| 16 | It was therefore natural that it should have been Braque who solved the present problem , largely a technical one , of finding a new , easier means of representing the new concepts of pictorial form and space in all their fullness and complexity . |
| 17 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 18 | Should have been Lawrence , not me . |
| 19 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 20 | Er and we thought that there should have been initials against every item that was ticked . |
| 21 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 22 | In theory the task should have been simplicity itself . |
| 23 | His rightful heir , according to the tradition of tanistry , should have been Kenneth III 's grandson , but Malcolm had already disposed of him and other possible candidates while laying plans for his own grandson Duncan to succeed . |
| 24 | Her last purchase should have been bread — she picked a flat circular loaf rather than a baguette — but she succumbed to temptation and bought one of the plastic containers of the local vin ordinaire , amazingly cheap and good for its price , and several bottles of water too . |
| 25 | The correct reference should have been reference 3 . |
| 26 | Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child 's play , but I still could not get the hang of it . |
| 27 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 28 | The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me . |
| 29 | The Permanent Secretary of the Department of National Heritage sweated in the hot seat , but it should have been Stevens sitting there instead , as he was the man responsible , having assumed executive powers . |
| 30 | For all his apparent virility , she felt it was he who should have been Harry 's mother . |