Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have been taking French or English , or something . |
| 2 | This money should have been made available anyway . |
| 3 | But Tory councillor Peter Jones claimed last night that funds should have been made available . |
| 4 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 5 | The people of England should have been made aware of the significance of the match . |
| 6 | By this stage each party contacted should have been made aware of the firm 's professional relationship with the client and the confidentiality and sensitivity of any client information discussed . |
| 7 | Churning is not good for buyers though : endowments are meant to be long-term investments , and it should have been made clear to you when you bought the policy that you would lose out if you cashed in before the end of the agreed term , which is typically , 25 years . |
| 8 | The first point to make is that this is the same book as originally published in 1974 and retrospectively numbered ‘ 36 ’ in the series — we feel this should have been made clear by titling it ‘ Revised Edition ’ in the style previously followed . |
| 9 | By this stage Labour should have been riding high . |
| 10 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 11 | Derrida comments : ‘ It is the meaning of ‘ ’ history ’ or archia that should have been questioned first , perhaps ' . |
| 12 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 13 | ( Even our typewriters are mechanical horrors that should have been declared obsolete decades ago . ) |
| 14 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 15 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied . |
| 16 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 17 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 18 | Max Jacob believed he should have been given full credit for persuading Modi to return to painting . |
| 19 | As might be expected , policy rules of quite formidable complexity have been developed in the rational expectations literature , the best known of these being that proposed by Barro ( 1977 ) in which he attempts to model the process by which the growth in the money supply is determined and , on the basis of the prediction of what the money supply should have been given known values for its determining variables , to derive a time series for ‘ anticipated ’ changes in the money supply . |
| 20 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 21 | Joe Royle should have been appointed two years ago . |
| 22 | I think we should have been consulted first |
| 23 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 24 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 25 | The Japanese hi-fi 's clapped out , the VW should have been replaced 18 months ago , and that new Miele dishwasher does n't quite fit alongside the Swedish fridge . |
| 26 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 27 | The dispute should have been settled 53 years ago when the 1930 Reservoirs Act ruled that the owners of all reservoirs containing more than 23 million litres must have them inspected and repaired regularly . |
| 28 | The Arsenal boss should have been feeling pleased after his side salvaged a late point . |
| 29 | She should have been feeling relaxed , but too many thoughts still crowded in on her , and there were no solutions to any of them . |
| 30 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |