Example sentences of "as it should have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's more aerodynamic , the interior has been improved ( although not nearly as much as it should have been ) , the new engine has more power and yet is no thirstier , and the new suspension means safer , more predictable , handling . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 3 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |
| 4 | Poised , suggestive , but nowhere near as funny or as savage as it should have been . |
| 5 | Coaching , however , has not been developed in the UK as much as it should have been . |
| 6 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 7 | That was as it should have been . |
| 8 | People crowded around , and the awful truth came out : the barrel was n't as full as it should have been . |
| 9 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 10 | It was plain to Lugh , as it should have been to everyone else , that Fergus — and whoever he took with him — was going to get into severe difficulties in the Far Future . |
| 11 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 12 | This organization was not always as efficient in fact as it should have been in theory . |
| 13 | On this night though , David , if you can believe it , everything was not quite as it should have been , including the opposition . |
| 14 | I am sure that this was inadvertent — perhaps the wording of the question was not as precise as it should have been — but the answer did not begin to present an accurate picture of the number of times that guillotine motions have been brought before the House by the Government . |
| 15 | Maisie 's conversation was n't quite as much of a surprise as it should have been . |
| 16 | Robert knew that his stepdaughter would have a little inheritance , not as much as it should have been because that stubborn old woman had dipped into her capital to buy worthless stock , but it would be a nice little nest-egg all the same . |
| 17 | ‘ My mind has n't always been focused on this operation as fully as it should have been . ’ |
| 18 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |