Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should have been there when that woman came leaping out at me . |
| 2 | I should have been there when you woke this morning , cara . |
| 3 | Of course Francis should have been there as well . ’ |
| 4 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 5 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 6 | This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep . |
| 7 | Mar was initially joined by eighteen lords , bringing with them some 5,000 men , which should have been more than a match for the 1,500 regular troops stationed in Scotland . |
| 8 | Indeed at first Kersal enjoyed the run of play and their half-time lead should have been more than 6 points , fly half Neil Pearson out of sorts , he missed 4 penalties . |
| 9 | We have won two out of four and it should have been more because we were in winning positions at Taunton and Liverpool . ’ |
| 10 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 11 | She must have been upstairs because almost as if in answer to him we heard her heavy tread on the stairs . |
| 12 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 13 | It must have been just before Boswell picked her up . |
| 14 | It must have been just before I left home in November . |
| 15 | It must have been just after I left , thought Joan . |
| 16 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 17 | She must have been there as Christopher Peasgood became increasingly blue . |
| 18 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 19 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 20 | ‘ But there must have been more than that , surely ? ’ |
| 21 | In these four years the dinar value of these deposits multiplied by a factor of nearly 10 , and by the end of 1987 this factor must have been more than 20 . |
| 22 | There must have been more than twenty farms , plus the school , the chapel and the Strathmore Arms . |
| 23 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 24 | And those who could n't afford a half-crown fine , but would rather wait until nightfall to sweep or cause to be swept their bit of pavement , must have been more than grateful that the Trustees would also kindly provide ‘ Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed into , upon , or against the Walls or Pallisadoes of any of the Houses , Tenements , or Buildings within the said Town , . |
| 25 | Robert Hasted must have been more than usually proud , then , of his daughter Elizabeth 's second son , Robert Titford . |
| 26 | Benjamin must have been more than a little interested by all the information this sheet of paper contained , principally because he had scarcely known his own father , who had died before he was two years old . |
| 27 | The chance to escape from the daily drudgery in the pits must have been more than attractive . |
| 28 | In the end , there must have been more than twenty small windows all around where Little Billy was sitting , and from each window these amazing little faces were peering out . |
| 29 | There must have been more than twenty curriers Nowadays there are no tanneries and there are only three curriers So the answer to your question is yes , many , many more . |
| 30 | All that may be stated with any certainty is that his knowledge of the craft must have been more than merely adequate and that he was a good businessman . |