Example sentences of "should have be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Where a defendant was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with a co-defendant who had pleaded guilty to a charge of gross indecency with the appellant , evidence of the co-defendant 's plea of guilty , although relevant , should have been excluded from the jury , since such evidence would have an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings against the defendant as the jury was likely to treat it as going to prove the defendant 's guilt . |
| 32 | The appellant appealed on the ground that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty should have been excluded by the trial judge in the exercise of his discretion under section 78(1) of the 1984 Act . |
| 33 | The likelihood that that would happen should have been appreciated from the outset : if A committed an act of gross indecency with B , it was a strong inference that the converse was also true in the absence of special circumstances to indicate otherwise . |
| 34 | The programme should have been broadcast for most of last month as well . |
| 35 | The BBC cameras should have been there , with the high priest Chris Rea and his acolyte Nigel Starmer-Smith in attendance . |
| 36 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 37 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 38 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 39 | There are , too , a few ensemble lapses that should have been corrected . |
| 40 | With the wisdom of hindsight , it is easy to see now that the Stag 's troublesome V8 , designed and inadequately developed in-house by Triumph before it merged with Leyland , should have been ditched and replaced by Rover 's proven ex-Buick 3.5-litre V8 ( still used by Land-Rover , Morgan , TVR and others ) that was already on the shelf . |
| 41 | He added : ‘ What is so appalling is that millions of pounds which should have been invested in children 's education has been squandered in pursuit of electoral advantage . ’ |
| 42 | Panama 's President Francisco Rodriguez should have been there , too ( it is a Group of Eight meeting , after all ) , but his country is in the doghouse because of the controversial behaviour of his boss , General Manuel Noriega . |
| 43 | ‘ I loved the song , and I think it should have been a hit , but there again the record company did nothing to promote it . |
| 44 | It should have been very sophisticated . |
| 45 | Sir : For real dramatic effect , your article on road pricing by Terence Bendixson ( Focus , 5 October ) should have been published alongside that of John Lichfield reporting from Los Angeles the day before . |
| 46 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 47 | You should have been more kind to your loyal readers . |
| 48 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 49 | Sir Rhodes Boyson , the MP for Brent North , who has led the Tory backbench campaign to wring more funds from the Treasury , argued that more money should have been provided for next year . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | And perhaps I should have been , because I wanted to do the other as well . ’ |
| 52 | The potential benefits in facilities alone should have been obvious to all , he thinks . |
| 53 | Eric Cantona 's goal was caused by Richard Gough and Nicol being marked absent yards from where they should have been . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 56 | Even if Shilton , inevitably cautious in his 41st year , is now most likely to be found out by teasing centres ( never mind the ‘ hand of God ’ , he should have been quicker , more positively to the ball than Diego Maradona in Mexico four years ago ) , his reliable and spectacular shot-stopping in Poland emphasised glaring inadequacies stemming from the grossly misguided philosophy that continues to gain ground in the Football League . |
| 57 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 58 | Can you please advise my what should have been contained , and explain how it is used ? ’ |
| 59 | Even David Owen was later to admit that they should have been scrapped during his time at the Foreign Office in 1 977–9 . |
| 60 | It was also known that Mrs Thatcher 's closest advisers , Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham , were implicated in the leak , and it seemed improbable that the Prime Minister should have been totally ignorant . |