Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] should have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 2 | You are now ready to attach the fabric which should have been cut in panels to fit the wall measurements and seamed where necessary to join the lengths . |
| 3 | We can well understand and sympathise with the judge 's concern that where serious injuries had been inflicted on Mr. Gilbert , who gave credible evidence implicating the appellant , the prosecution case should have been prejudiced by inappropriately calling a witness who should have been tendered to the defence . |
| 4 | Startled , he turned , but Therese had darted , scooping her peacock train up over one arm , back around behind the screen , to the side he should have been on . |
| 5 | It was so damned unfair that Henry was n't the complete charlatan he should have been . |
| 6 | A party receiving a payment which should have been made into court shall forthwith notify the proper officer in writing and pay the money received into court ( Ord 11 , r 1A ) . |
| 7 | Yet Mary Ann Jones , author of the major American study A Second Chance for Families ( 1976 ) , ruefully remarked : ‘ The money which should have been saved from the reduction in institutional care was never transferred to support the financing of the new community services . ’ |
| 8 | Instead , anything from £20 billion to £30 billion a year has been spent on benefit for the growing army of unemployed , surely the least satisfactory possible way of spending money which should have been invested . |
| 9 | The first principal reason for not proceeding with the Bill at this stage is that the European Commissioner rightly identified serious failures in the environmental impact assessment work which should have been carried out . |
| 10 | In Rickards v Oppenheim [ 1950 ] , the defendant wanted a body built on his Rolls Royce chassis and he agreed that the plaintiffs ( from whom he had purchased the chassis ) could use a sub-contractor to do this specialized work which should have been completed in March 1948 . |
| 11 | For critical missions a single resistor value can be entered , and the package will suggest what value(s) to parallel if , say , a production run of PTH PCBs have been fitted with a 17.4k precision resistor which should have been 14.7k … |
| 12 | ‘ And we are still looking for the child who should have been in the premises , but was n't . |
| 13 | ( No Robina Mary , Robina Elizabeth for the girl who should have been a boy . ) |
| 14 | And by his career plan he should have been finished and out of here by now , instead of which he 's way over time on fixed-price job and his prospects of retirement at thirty-five are receding now even faster than they were before . |
| 15 | According to Mr Paton 's plan he should have been left to die . |
| 16 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 17 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 18 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 19 | IT SEEMS to me to be tough on Dr John Bromley , head of a four-GP practice , that he should take sole blame after a two-year-old boy had wandered into a surgery and swallowed some carbolic acid which should have been locked away . |
| 20 | Mr Gummer 's secret mission to the States emerged when David Curry MP , his number two at the Ministry of Agriculture , deputised at a dairy trade luncheon where he indicated that the bill to reform agricultural marketing which should have been introduced last week is likely to enter Parliament before Christmas . |
| 21 | Problems with the production process may be demonstrated by showing an impurity which should have been removed before the product was put into circulation . |
| 22 | The last , it should be remembered , was an aim which should have been achieved , under the Rome Treaty , in 1970 . |
| 23 | His fingertip barely touched the place it should have been , but the smile had faded , replaced by tension , and Luke 's eyes darkened in response to the turbulence that had entered hers . |
| 24 | Have you seen this publicity which should have been put through your door ? |
| 25 | In most cases damages will be for the difference between the value of the service provided and the value of the service which should have been provided under the contract . |
| 26 | The shout made Peter unbalanced , he grabbed at the eagle which should have been fixed to the stone . |
| 27 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 28 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 29 | If Petrey does hold this view , then it is an extremely significant claim which should have been made explicitly , especially since many speech act semanticists have based their semantic analyses on a link between linguistic forms and illocutionary forces . |
| 30 | Sometimes it was all she could do not to reproach Liza for her lack of consideration , for her supine acceptance in letting her mother take on the role which should have been her own . |