Example sentences of "should have be " in BNC.

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1 Among those closest who should have been frightened was Annie , his girl for a while .
2 Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father .
3 However , he wrote , for that very reason , the right hand side should have been even more solid , even more thought through than the left .
4 I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started .
5 It should have been done sooner , he wrote , but the truth is it would always have been too late .
6 I watched a world that should have been behind glass and yet I was the one who was behind glass and reality was theirs .
7 However , it should have been obvious to the pilot , and to everyone at the launch point , that with either a swing or a wing-drop there would almost certainly be a collision .
8 I should have been a lesbian !
9 ‘ Mary — you should have been in the government . ’
10 If that is the case , then it is possible that he also thought that the synagogue ritual , as well as the direction of their commercial life and benefactions should have been handled differently .
11 Even I can see that he should have been implacable . ’
12 In reality they should have been dumbfounded and embarrassed , wishing the floor would open up and swallow them .
13 I should have been on my guard .
14 London was , or should have been , the most exciting place in the world .
15 The anarchist paper Freiheit , in opposition to the Marxists , thought Eleanor should have been shot on sight upon arriving .
16 It should have been returned to the author for him to re-write in a clear and concise manner .
17 Questions that should have been asked long ago are now being asked — and , more importantly , answered .
18 The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable .
19 I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me .
20 ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty .
21 For critical missions a single resistor value can be entered , and the package will suggest what value(s) to parallel if , say , a production run of PTH PCBs have been fitted with a 17.4k precision resistor which should have been 14.7k …
22 Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ .
23 A great mystery is why Eliot , who was more of a relativist than Pound , should have been accepted by the academic establishment whereas Pound was not .
24 All the more odd , then , that yesterday 's funeral should have been both a celebration of time-honoured Tembu ritual and the most vocal demonstration in years on what the rest of the world calls South African soil of the strength of the ANC and its far from tribalistic affiliate , the South African Communist Party .
25 Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves .
26 It should have been QPR 's , when Sinton , set up by Bardsley , somehow contrived to shoot wide .
27 They are almost 20 years old and should have been replaced , but the company has accepted that it is unlikely to get government approval for new ferries until the bridge controversy has been resolved .
28 Shigeru Tokinoya , who was in charge of textbook screening at the time Professor Ienaga 's book was banned , said : ‘ All of our corrections should have been upheld …
29 Because insufficient allowances were allocated , the union argues , the local education authorities used much of the money that should have been paid in incentive allowances to classroom teachers to pay the senior staff their incentive entitlements .
30 Possibly , Haines 's public ‘ unveiling ’ should have been left for a while as he felt unable at this early stage to give firm views on major issues , such as racing 's finances and Jockey Club justice .
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