Example sentences of "should [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A target of 128 should not have been beyond England , but four wickets went down for 15 and it was left to Gower and Botham to make a game of it . |
| 2 | ‘ Neville should not have been outside his area but his reaction was instinctive , not pre-meditated . ’ |
| 3 | Parish council chairman Brian Biddiscombe said Miss Harrison and her friends should not have been on the bridge . |
| 4 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 6 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 7 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 8 | The dwarf had been a mutant , and as such should not have been in Kinsai at all . |
| 9 | The only other proviso is that the creation of the second spreadsheet program should not have been in the contemplation of the licensed user when decompiling the original program , otherwise the permitted objective of decompilation might be compromised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had been moving slowly , and the street was dark … but he should still have been in view … should n't he ? |
| 13 | Mr McArdle should n't have been on the train . |
| 14 | For a start he should n't have been on the table . |
| 15 | Except you should n't have been on the pavement . |
| 16 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 17 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 18 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |
| 19 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 20 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I find out he should never have been on the road . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mr Gowans explained O'Connor should never have been on the beat . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She 's very , very disturbed , and should never have been in prison . |
| 27 | He should never have been in prison . |