Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she should have been indignantly pulling away somehow she was melting into his arms , her lips parting beneath the increasing ardour of his . |
| 2 | Regardless of nerves ( which should have been largely removed through practice examinations ) , resolve to follow a fixed routine during the examination . |
| 3 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 4 | Without it I should have been hopelessly lost . |
| 5 | Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law . |
| 6 | ‘ Look at that , ’ he said , and crouched and peered , drawing her in , ‘ a clock , how strange , ’ strange because it was an antique clock with inlaid wood and round brass knobs for legs , it should have been softly ticking away on someone wealthy 's mantelpiece , a china shepherdess on either side , a marble fireplace below , and yet here it was , lying under a bush , and tilted at a curious angle as if it was drunk , and not ticking at all . |
| 7 | I should have been here to meet you , but you were late arriving and I had an appointment in the village . ’ |
| 8 | It should have been substantially increased , as it is a useful contribution to the income of retired households at this time of year . |
| 9 | Surely I should have been better armed against the deceits of the devil . |
| 10 | As there is no obvious reason why the reservoir should have been adversely affected in the second well , more study is clearly needed in order to understand the distribution of these cements . |
| 11 | Some of those who had commented on the draft of the new programme , Gorbachev revealed , thought the term should have been entirely removed ; others , on the contrary , thought it should have been dealt with at greater length . |
| 12 | Rather , it identifies the way in which the decision as to who should operate the telescope was taken and reports that many university astronomers felt the possibility of alternative organisational arrangements should have been publicly debated . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Emily , I know I should have been there to help Uncle Thomas with his business long ago . ’ |
| 14 | Since partial interpretations did not have to be kept distinct over stretches longer than two words the combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses should have been considerably reduced . |
| 15 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 16 | More important is the wider summer market , which should have been fully booked by mid-May ; it was not . |
| 17 | The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time . |
| 18 | Well should have been really taking two of her strong tablets she says , you know , and she has . |
| 19 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 20 | With three years to make your mark , your wife 's belly should have been permanently swollen . ’ |
| 21 | The balance has tipped too far in the other direction : instead of ignoring her sexuality , Christabel is now dominated by it , and so the creative process by which she should have been psychologically fulfilled has not worked . |
| 22 | Or that London bobbies were too often to be found whispering sweet nothings to kitchen maids , and tucking into pastries in servants ' quarters on foggy nights , when they should have been out walking the beat . |
| 23 | I was still lackadaisical about my training , still playing dominoes in Mick 's cafe when I should have been out running repetition 300 metres on the West London track . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyone accused of murder is regarded as a danger to the public and there should have been more control here , ’ said a senior City police officer . |
| 25 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 26 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 27 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 28 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 29 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 30 | At present , the woman must have been continuously employed by the same employer for two years . |