Example sentences of "[pron] should have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Lévi-Strauss rather objects to the ethnocentrism of Sartre 's argument , for it means that ‘ man ’ , the constituents of whom should have been the result and product of Sartre 's anthropology , is defined in advance in terms of the dialectic as historical humanity , with history effectively restricted to societies of the West . |
| 2 | They say I should 've been a member of Leith branch . |
| 3 | I should have been a lesbian ! |
| 4 | I should have been a detective , she thought , as her journey ended . |
| 5 | I should have been a bit a bit clearer about that . |
| 6 | I should have been an actress . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have been an accountant or an administrator instead of a doctor ! |
| 8 | I should have been the hero of the game but I will always be known as the one who lost it . |
| 9 | In the centre was Gemioncourt farm which should have been a fortress to hold up the French , but was now empty because the Belgian guns and infantry had fled straight past the farm , thus yielding its strong walls and loopholed barns to the enemy . |
| 10 | This motion was triggered by a particular case which happened within the Birmingham region on the first of January nineteen ninety three which should have been a start of the European Market the people 's Europe . |
| 11 | If a company chairman described trading as ‘ bad ’ in his address to the annual general meeting , and then later told an analyst it was ‘ very bad ’ , and if the analyst then advised clients to sell , would that be inside information which should have been the subject of a further statement to the Stock Exchange ? |
| 12 | ( No Robina Mary , Robina Elizabeth for the girl who should have been a boy . ) |
| 13 | And Ma , who always agreed with him ( who did n't dare do otherwise ) , stout , soft Ma , who should have been a refuge , a lap to sit upon , a bosom to weep on , but who herself looked always in need of comfort — crumpled , creased , forever on the verge of tears : |
| 14 | ‘ You should 've been a policeman . |
| 15 | You should 've been a lot through more than five . |
| 16 | ’ You should have been a monk . |
| 17 | ‘ You should have been a courtier . ’ |
| 18 | You should have been a guerrilla leader , Sara , you delight in winning small skirmishes . " |
| 19 | ‘ You should have been a poet ! |
| 20 | You should have been an actor . |
| 21 | She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age . |
| 22 | Many considered she should have been a member of the royal commission on population ( 1946–9 ) but she did give evidence and published her widely read The Population of Britain in 1947 . |
| 23 | With that spirit and her inventive brain , she should have been a boy , and together they would have run the world . |
| 24 | In fact , there should have been no doubt about the larva that dined on Robin Prytherch , natural history film-maker and ornithologist . |
| 25 | There should have been no struggle . |
| 26 | The issue was as politically predictable as they come , there should have been no muddle as a result . |
| 27 | There should have been no room in his universe for sub-divine but super-human powers , other than devils or angels ; however the senders of Scyld seem supernatural in knowledge and purpose , while showing no interest in the inhabitants of Denmark 's souls . |
| 28 | That there should have been a Navy League , a Tariff Reform League , and an Anti-Socialist Union filled with Conservatives was an indication that there were many Conservative supporters who felt that the Conservative party was not doing its job properly . |
| 29 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 30 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |