Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 2 | Er and we thought that there should have been initials against every item that was ticked . |
| 3 | The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me . |
| 4 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 5 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 6 | ACCIDENT & General has confirmed that the rate it quoted for last week 's travel insurance table which appeared on page 23 of the Money-Go-Round section of the newspaper should have been £17.90 for a two-week holiday in Europe rather than £14.70 . |
| 7 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 8 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 9 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 10 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 11 | Part of the problem must have been competition between northern and southern universities , ’ says Irvine . |
| 12 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 13 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 14 | I mapped out our plans — the Palladium , the TV series — must have been £50,000 of work . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 16 | This must have been part of a Roman cemetery as again in 1926 near this spot workmen digging on the edge of Lee 's Great Quarry ( Houlder Quarry ) , 20 yards from Clements Farm found a quantity of human bones and pottery . |
| 17 | I think that , too , must have been part of an identity check , particularly as she repeated it again at the end . " |
| 18 | As emerged later from the television news , he had been visiting the front near al-Amarah , during what must have been part of the offensive named by Tehran as Muharram al-Haram . |
| 19 | There must have been interference with performance of a contract |
| 20 | The wind-chill temperature that night must have been way below the — -25°C ( — -13°F ) of the air temperature . |
| 21 | Must have been quarter of an hour at least . |
| 22 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 23 | Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification . |
| 24 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 25 | He did n't get back until … on , it must have been Tuesday of the following week . ’ |
| 26 | The decision was not costly for India — Marsh was bowled shortly afterwards — but most onlookers were convinced that Boon , when 1 , must have been lbw to Kapil Dev . |
| 27 | Saturday night must have been pandemonium with everybody needing their turn in the washtub . |
| 28 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 29 | There must have been concentrations of seal makers at the great temple centres , serving the larger populations of the towns . |
| 30 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |