Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory .
2 ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago .
3 Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension .
4 ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’
5 Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there .
6 He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal .
7 I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence .
8 Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack .
9 I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done .
10 BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations .
11 and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal .
12 Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman .
13 First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 .
14 It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire .
15 Copsey should have been awarded a Lonsdale belt for his first-half haymaker on Francis .
16 Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals .
17 On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’
18 In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out .
19 The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein .
20 I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea .
21 She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms .
22 This film must have been given an ‘ A ’ certificate by the censors but adults were easily persuaded to ‘ take us in , please , mister . ’
23 It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so .
24 On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun :
25 It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp .
26 ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’
27 If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge .
28 ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’
29 Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question .
30 That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear .
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