Example sentences of "than it should have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the result was almost always less favourable than it should have been ; it was often actually unfavourable , often even very bad — an injury that , an injury that , in a patient so treated , it is difficult to repair . |
| 4 | Invariably riding green ponies , his handicap at six was lower than it should have been . |
| 5 | But the whole incident was less memorable than it should have been — she seemed like an ordinary human being , very neat in a coat and skirt , talking about her hotel at Woodstock . |
| 6 | ‘ That first record was finally released a good 18 months later than it should have been , ’ said the source . |
| 7 | A spokesman said the level of liquor in an evaporator was ‘ higher than it should have been ’ . |
| 8 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 9 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 10 | Some minutes later , after a visit from Dr Greene , who pronounced Faye 's condition to be ‘ quite satisfactory ’ , but ordered a follow-up blood glucose test in an hour , as the level was somewhat higher than it should have been , Belinda was left alone with her patient . |
| 11 | Thus good title is conferred upon the purchaser but at a date later than it should have been . |
| 12 | I suppose my reluctance was more visible than it should have been . |
| 13 | What it was she could n't guess , but his enmity seemed deeper than it should have been , given that they 'd only just met . |
| 14 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 15 | That was the crunch point , the writing and the doing of it — that did n't happen , so it has n't got them , so it looks a bit blander than it should have been . |