Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |
| 2 | Kwik Save also prosecuted for offering Danish blue cheese which was unfit because of its bacteria count , and having food on sale at temperatures of up to 20 degrees which should have been stored at a maximum of eight degrees centigrade . |
| 3 | Tax on the remaining £1,640 should have been charged at the basic rate of 25 per cent , which would make your tax bill £410 . |
| 4 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They should have been stopped at the block … ’ |
| 7 | It should have been done at once ; now the moment of surprise is lost . ’ |
| 8 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 10 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 11 | From knowing the actual word that should have been written at a particular position in the input , a simple NAWK program was written which loaded the target word for each position into an associative array , then went through the Q100 lattice and printed out the recognition score assigned to each target word . |
| 12 | GCE passes in four subjects — at least one subject should have been passed at ‘ A ’ level ( after enrolment , candidates offering ‘ A ’ level and mature student qualifications must undertake a BTEC approved conversion programme before they are admitted to the main course ) ; or |
| 13 | It comes as no surprise that such a verdict should have been arrived at . |
| 14 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 15 | The executive checked the documents , and noted that the order should have been executed at a much lower price . |
| 16 | Your three separate readings should have been executed at very different speeds , the third reading being the slowest and the second the fastest . |
| 17 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 18 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ Their personal problems should have been resolved at home , ’ said an official . |
| 21 | Er , but that assertion needs to be examined just a little more closely because the British government are not without blame in relation to this matter , er the issues er affecting these forthcoming elections should have been resolved at the Edinburgh summit during the presidency of the British government . |
| 22 | He says all the trouble in this land is caused by two per cent of bastards who should have been drowned at birth . |
| 23 | Mujtaba should have been caught at slip by Gooch when only 17 , Munton the suffering bowler , and the skipper , now into double figures with international catching errors this year , surely about to relaunch as a mid-off . |
| 24 | It was not a subject that should have been laughed at . |
| 25 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 26 | A local Tory euro MP says European taxation systems should have been looked at . |
| 27 | But a further complicating factor is that Watling Street , in its latest phases , points directly to the medieval East Gate , strongly suggesting that here also lay the later Roman gate , most probably on a different site to that belonging to the early defences ; if this is so , then the ditch must have been bridged at the gate . |
| 28 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 29 | Her hair was glossy , perfectly straight and almost black , and it hung thickly around her perfectly-shaped head in a faultless bob that must have been done at Brisbane 's most exclusive hair salon . |
| 30 | ‘ Whoever did it must have been aiming at her head but thankfully they missed . |