Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 2 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 3 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 4 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 5 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 6 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 7 | Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack . |
| 8 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 9 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 10 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 11 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 12 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 13 | It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire . |
| 14 | Copsey should have been awarded a Lonsdale belt for his first-half haymaker on Francis . |
| 15 | Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals . |
| 16 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 17 | The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein . |
| 18 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 19 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 20 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 21 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 22 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 23 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 24 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 26 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 27 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 28 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
| 29 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 30 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |