Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I should 've realized was that we 're still filling in the form |
| 2 | What I should have said was that there was no serious dispute among professionals of quality who had any discernment in such matters . |
| 3 | Without a shred of evidence he had employed an innuendo when what he should have said was that any normal English person could not but approve of the sight of young English lads in their uniforms , and would naturally pause to observe how they played a game . |
| 4 | Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck . |
| 5 | What should have happened is that the soft , natural gold would be spiked by the pin … what actually happened was that the nugget was pinged out into the river like a tiddly wink . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that one of the representations that he must have received was that from the Liberal Democrats advocating their policy of imposing an extra 50p a gallon on petrol ? |
| 7 | what it might have done is that probably did n't need doing because Mouse Com was probably already fixed and now we 're unfixing it ? |
| 8 | Another aspect of organisations which you might have discovered is that organisations are constantly changing . |
| 9 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 10 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 11 | All that would have happened is that for some reason the Earth 's magnetic field would have reversed itself . |
| 12 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 13 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 14 | Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor . |