Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should 've been Concorde . |
| 2 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 3 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 4 | ‘ It must 've been Helga . |
| 5 | Charlie said there should have been markers to show the jockeys where to switch from the steeplechase course to the proper course . |
| 6 | An arm came loose and fell off , revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament , bone and muscle . |
| 7 | Should have been ladies first , of course . |
| 8 | The headlines should have been KELLY KEEPS GIGGS IN HIS POCKET . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 11 | Should have been Lawrence , not me . |
| 12 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 13 | Er and we thought that there should have been initials against every item that was ticked . |
| 14 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 15 | In theory the task should have been simplicity itself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her last purchase should have been bread — she picked a flat circular loaf rather than a baguette — but she succumbed to temptation and bought one of the plastic containers of the local vin ordinaire , amazingly cheap and good for its price , and several bottles of water too . |
| 18 | The correct reference should have been reference 3 . |
| 19 | Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child 's play , but I still could not get the hang of it . |
| 20 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 21 | The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For all his apparent virility , she felt it was he who should have been Harry 's mother . |
| 24 | Penny McAllister 's parents welcomed the decision but insisted the verdict should have been murder and the sentence life . |
| 25 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 26 | Douglas Kilvington of Kirkstall wrote in querying the ‘ Cufton ’ and making the point that this should have been Clifton . |
| 27 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 28 | ACCIDENT & General has confirmed that the rate it quoted for last week 's travel insurance table which appeared on page 23 of the Money-Go-Round section of the newspaper should have been £17.90 for a two-week holiday in Europe rather than £14.70 . |
| 29 | I put the dustbin bag out on the Wednesday and it and and and it should have been Thursday and . |
| 30 | An unfortunate misprint in Hansard says that the value of the ships on order is £4.6 million whereas the correct answer should have been £4.6 billion . |