Example sentences of "should [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One of the most important impacts of The Brow should thus have been on the content and dissemination of subsequent official guidance on residential road layout .
2 If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have .
3 He had been moving slowly , and the street was dark … but he should still have been in view … should n't he ?
4 You should previously have been in charge of a small cruiser for at least two weeks ( perhaps on a two week flotilla ) , and you should be confident reefing your mainsail or paddling your rubber dinghy in strong winds .
5 ‘ Now I find out he should never have been on the road .
6 Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction .
7 Mr Gowans explained O'Connor should never have been on the beat .
8 Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on .
9 She 's very , very disturbed , and should never have been in prison .
10 He should never have been in prison .
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