Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 2 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 3 | It should have been Princess Voluptua , but her car 's broken down , so I 'll have to put you on or they 'll get rowdy . ’ |
| 4 | That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and |
| 5 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 6 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 7 | By elimination , Donna 's mother must be Jean , and the programme seen by Ann and Julie must have been Peter Pan and Popeye . |
| 8 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
| 10 | Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices , while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen . |
| 11 | I realized that the cheerfully forceful woman I had seen the day before must have been Mrs Maureen Kenny herself . |
| 12 | ‘ The man who brought you in to the Squad must have been Alan Jones . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 14 | It must have been Grace Poole . |
| 15 | That woman must have been Grace Poole . |
| 16 | Somebody who used to live next door to you , so it must have been Hartsett Close then . |
| 17 | At least , David Mellor in the Press box was pleased , and so too must have been John Major whose only smiles these days seem to be inspired by the performances of Chelsea . |
| 18 | Some were growing beards and going bald which may not seem like drastic changes , but in the women there must have been side effects from changing your course of pills . |
| 19 | They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over . |
| 20 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 21 | it always starts but I feel there must have been fuel evaporation . |
| 22 | Like Southern Baptists of Tennessee , many Northern Irish Presbyterians believe that the wine enjoyed by Jesus and His disciples must have been grape juice , since Christians do not drink alcohol . |
| 23 | ‘ It must have been Maureen O'Duffy . ’ |
| 24 | If Law had a political model , then it must have been Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a fellow Scot who had shown that an ordinary man could hold the highest office without discredit and that he could beat the clever and the politically sophisticated at their own game . |
| 25 | During interviews he denied all knowledge of how the fire started but investigators said he must have been awarethat Bailey had confessed to his wife . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 27 | Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know . |
| 28 | By the end of that he 'll have been Blades boss for nearly nine years ! |
| 29 | In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year . |
| 30 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |