Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 2 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 3 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , the lads are upset because at 3-0 up they should have been home and dry . |
| 5 | How it should have been there and |
| 6 | ‘ You should have been there when that woman came leaping out at me . |
| 7 | I should have been there when you woke this morning , cara . |
| 8 | Of course Francis should have been there as well . ’ |
| 9 | That someone as gentle and inoffensive as Sybil , with her flower paintings and her harmless little poems , should have been needlessly and savagely battered to death , made Melissa seethe with rage . |
| 10 | It is not easy to understand why it should have been so but France south of the Loire was undoubtedly the seedbed of the whole " courtly love " movement . |
| 11 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 12 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 13 | This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep . |
| 14 | Mar was initially joined by eighteen lords , bringing with them some 5,000 men , which should have been more than a match for the 1,500 regular troops stationed in Scotland . |
| 15 | Indeed at first Kersal enjoyed the run of play and their half-time lead should have been more than 6 points , fly half Neil Pearson out of sorts , he missed 4 penalties . |
| 16 | We have won two out of four and it should have been more because we were in winning positions at Taunton and Liverpool . ’ |
| 17 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 18 | She must have been upstairs because almost as if in answer to him we heard her heavy tread on the stairs . |
| 19 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 20 | It must have been just before Boswell picked her up . |
| 21 | It must have been just before I left home in November . |
| 22 | It must have been just after I left , thought Joan . |
| 23 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 24 | She must have been there as Christopher Peasgood became increasingly blue . |
| 25 | However , there is not much evidence of this judicial activity in the landscape before the Middle Ages , although it must have been there and some places were obviously more significant than others in its instigation . |
| 26 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 27 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 28 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 29 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 30 | ‘ But there must have been more than that , surely ? ’ |