Example sentences of "should [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her appointment should not just have been a token . |
| 2 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 3 | The sensitive area of defence should more realistically have been one of the last spheres for the renunciation of national sovereignty , with a solid background of integrative experience and mutual trust behind it . |
| 4 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 5 | And I think it should n't even have been a question for the Celtic connection to be there . |
| 6 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 7 | We had another one I really liked who should n't really have been passed by the Ministry man because his horns were too long . |
| 8 | We should n't really have been , you never heard us talking to you . |
| 9 | ( Stone 1988 : 79 ) ( implies that such a question should never even have been asked , i.e. it was practically inconceivable for Socrates that one of his disciples should ask it ) |
| 10 | One option which they should very seriously consider is to invest in a bond fund . |
| 11 | Nor should too much hope be pinned on one month 's statistics . |
| 12 | Computer or no computer , I should certainly not have been able to handle the mathematics myself but John Cook likes that sort of thing and using the Mercury computer at Farnborough he was able to map the stresses very close to the tip of a crack which had a finite tip radius . |