Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe .
2 With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand .
3 It was a stupid decision , indicating only the severity of the government 's dollar crisis , and it is incredible that it should have been implemented without any discussion with the country 's major exhibitor .
4 As confirmation was not forthcoming , PW was unable to conclude whether Perfect Information was an associated undertaking at 31 March 1992 and should have been treated as such at 31 March 1991 .
5 It should have been played by some very good supporting character actress . ’
6 He was , in fact , a superb achiever and should have been recognized as such , and loaded with so much extra work and responsibilities that the pheasants would have been left in peace .
7 Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works .
8 What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ?
9 Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods .
10 But for your lordship 's visit I should have been gone before this . ’
11 It does not even follow that the research base should have been developed in any institution of higher education .
12 A brick should have been wrapped in that paper and then inserted well up Chamberlain 's fundamental orifice .
13 How much time should have been allocated to that job/ activity ?
14 Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well .
15 It seemed clear , though , that some courses which should have been entered in this section ( referred to in responses to earlier questions , e.g. 1.6 ) were not listed here , so these are almost certainly under-estimates .
16 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 .
17 This was because these capitalists lived in part or in whole out of the profits which should have been shared with all those who had helped in the process of production .
18 This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both .
19 We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group .
20 The autofocus should have been over-ridden on these shots .
21 ‘ It leaves me wondering why you should have been chosen for this very tame assignment .
22 She was an extraordinary human being , and it was a damn shame that her personality and talents should have been encased in that little dumpy body of hers .
23 The programme should have been broadcast for most of last month as well .
24 Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February .
25 At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug .
26 But it was open , I mean it must have been fenced in some way later on .
27 Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other .
28 These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old .
29 must have been threaded by some child .
30 To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste .
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