Example sentences of "[conj] should [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derrida comments : ‘ It is the meaning of ‘ ’ history ’ or archia that should have been questioned first , perhaps ' . |
| 2 | ( Even our typewriters are mechanical horrors that should have been declared obsolete decades ago . ) |
| 3 | The North Sea Oil bonanza — money that should have been spent encouraging and harnessing the potential of young people to live in a new , modern world — was instead squandered paying them to stay on the dole and to stay away from schools , colleges and training . |
| 4 | What the state can and should do is make sure that tax does not distort the choices involved . |
| 5 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |