Example sentences of "should [verb] be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should 've been Concorde . |
| 2 | ‘ I did say to her that the man Andy should see was Giles Hawick himself . |
| 3 | The headlines should have been KELLY KEEPS GIGGS IN HIS POCKET . |
| 4 | It was therefore natural that it should have been Braque who solved the present problem , largely a technical one , of finding a new , easier means of representing the new concepts of pictorial form and space in all their fullness and complexity . |
| 5 | Should have been Lawrence , not me . |
| 6 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 7 | His rightful heir , according to the tradition of tanistry , should have been Kenneth III 's grandson , but Malcolm had already disposed of him and other possible candidates while laying plans for his own grandson Duncan to succeed . |
| 8 | The Permanent Secretary of the Department of National Heritage sweated in the hot seat , but it should have been Stevens sitting there instead , as he was the man responsible , having assumed executive powers . |
| 9 | For all his apparent virility , she felt it was he who should have been Harry 's mother . |
| 10 | Douglas Kilvington of Kirkstall wrote in querying the ‘ Cufton ’ and making the point that this should have been Clifton . |
| 11 | I put the dustbin bag out on the Wednesday and it and and and it should have been Thursday and . |
| 12 | It should have been Princess Voluptua , but her car 's broken down , so I 'll have to put you on or they 'll get rowdy . ’ |
| 13 | It should have been QPR 's , when Sinton , set up by Bardsley , somehow contrived to shoot wide . |
| 14 | Too late , those who should have been Frederick 's allies realised their mistake in letting him be crushed . |
| 15 | I think that should have been Plymouth , I thought Plymouth were high on the league , they 're not , they 're near bottom |