Example sentences of "[noun] should have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity should have been a real opportunity of doing something effective . |
| 2 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |
| 3 | The two tall oblongs of light from the first-floor drawing-room window should have been a welcoming promise of warmth and comfort . |
| 4 | At first glance , Wilson should have been a superlative practitioner of Cabinet government . |
| 5 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 6 | HER first job should have been the greatest break in teenager Patricia Knox 's young life . |
| 7 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |
| 8 | Day one in Delhi should have been a gentle , relaxed affair lounging around the hotel pool recovering from jetlag after a 5am arrival from London . |
| 9 | The game should have been a classic but clearly was n't . |
| 10 | And then the person doing the raffle the person in the door should have been the same . |
| 11 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 12 | As usual , pace dominated the bowling , both in the Cup and in the A team series , and it was only fitting that Kenneth Benjamin should have been the latest addition to the Test attack . |
| 13 | she tell you it was a , the answer should have been a hundred and twenty nine and they 've got a thirty one in it yeah |
| 14 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |
| 15 | Secondly , though the net price obtained by the owner of land should have been the same irrespective of whether the body to whom he sold it was private or public , some owners might have been unwilling to sell to the commission . |
| 16 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 17 | The visit should have been a great success for both the tall and the short mavericks of the respective alliances . |
| 18 | Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ . |