Example sentences of "[vb mod] have be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new breakthrough should have been made in mid-1989 , when the track was used as a theme to the Jeff Goldblum/Rowan Atkinson movie The Tall Guy , in which Suggs made an appearance . |
| 2 | Why two such important Russian spies should have been placed in the same cell block so that they could freely meet and talk together is a mystery . |
| 3 | ‘ They said I should have been killed in a crash ’ |
| 4 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 5 | Baffled , he scratched his greasy white hair and wondered what it could be and why it should have been stored in a beer keg . |
| 6 | Once the contractor is satisfied that a sub-contractor holds a valid certificate no further inspection is necessary unless : ( a ) The date of expiry , which should have been noted in the builder 's records , has passed . |
| 7 | She should have been treated in the same way that an older man would be dealt with for corrupting a young girl . |
| 8 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 9 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 10 | If , however , they were too pessimistic this should have been belied in the subsequent years since the Nigerian Indigenization Decree of 1972 , implemented from February 1974 , which reserved twenty-six activities in large-scale industry exclusively for Nigerian ownership ; foreign companies operating in these businesses had to sell out . |
| 11 | Perhaps a government subsidy , sourced from entertainment tax , should have been applied in the interests of mass circulation . |
| 12 | While I am happy that our efforts to keep more heavy traffic off the roads should achieve front page prominence , I am not so keen that so much journalistic ‘ topspin ’ should have been applied in the process . |
| 13 | There is surely a certain irony in the fact that such a conservative movement should have been enlisted in the service of an essentially liberal aspiration . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ What is so appalling is that millions of pounds which should have been invested in children 's education has been squandered in pursuit of electoral advantage . ’ |
| 15 | The question revolves around whether revenue should have been recognised in the first place , i.e. had a sale taken place at all . |
| 16 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 17 | The Colonel had taken Sophia under his wing as a frail and dependent woman , who because of her son 's lack of responsibility must work , when she should have been maintained in comfort . |
| 18 | There is nothing surprising , therefore , in the fact that new conceptions should have been formulated — of the ‘ developmentalist ’ state , the ‘ interventionist ’ state , the particular forms of the state in ‘ industrial ’ or ‘ post-industrial ’ societies — or that political development in the twentieth century and its antecedents in the nineteenth century should have been reinterpreted in terms of democracy and totalitarianism , and of the rise of the nation state as well as the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 19 | This is a known problem with CorelDRAW 2 and Windows 3.1 which should have been fixed in the version you have . |
| 20 | It is perhaps unsurprising that the matter should have been challenged in the courts , given that it was an affront to the requirements of even the most basic conception of the rule of law . |
| 21 | The abolition of car tax was a bold move but it should have been done in the Budget last March , as the motor industry had asked . |
| 22 | The answer is that the advice that should have been given in the circumstances that prevailed on that date was , that if the plaintiffs wished to ignore the contract then they were entitled to serve a completion notice which because the vendor was unable to obtain that would have meant that the vendor would be unable to comply with the completion notice and accordingly the contract would have come to an end . |
| 23 | Again , the arrangement most suitable to the organisation should have been determined in the business analysis stage . |
| 24 | You are now ready to attach the fabric which should have been cut in panels to fit the wall measurements and seamed where necessary to join the lengths . |
| 25 | It can be argued that if Swans can establish they had not ordered the goods then no sale should have been recorded in which case revenue has to be reduced by the £80 and the creditor also has to be reduced by £80 . |
| 26 | It does not even follow that the research base should have been developed in any institution of higher education . |
| 27 | Shadow health secretary David Blunkett protested that the ‘ record ’ 50p rise should have been announced in an oral statement to the House , giving members the chance to question it . |
| 28 | It was natural that man 's relationship to God should have been expressed in covenant terms . |
| 29 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 30 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |