Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game should have been a classic but clearly was n't . |
| 2 | it should have been a hundred or something . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | This should have been a happy and holy occasion but the expressions on the faces looking up at him — Denis , Hana , Uncle Mick , Carmella , now pale and shaken , even poor Joey — told him more than any words how empty the action was . |
| 5 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 6 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 7 | Even the sight of a national candidate must have been a rare and unusual occasion . |
| 8 | Peter clearly took to heart what must have been a challenging and potentially testing message . |
| 9 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 10 | We lay side by side on the floor all over the house — there must have been a dozen or more of us , including nice old Ma Mi who was delighted to see us . |
| 11 | No guidelines are given for the interpretation of s8 except that the term to be included must have been a fair and reasonable one having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of , the parties when the contract was made ( s11(1) ) . |
| 12 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 13 | Given the complexities of concurrent working , there might have been a hundred and one other explanations . |
| 14 | The trees thinned to reveal what once might have been a clearing but which now resembled only a poisonous-looking wilderness . |
| 15 | Tatham might have been a natural but Magill had been the achiever in the secret world . |
| 16 | How do they feel towards those who consigned them to what could have been a violent and horrific death ? |
| 17 | Or there may have been a sudden and unexpected explosion in the local mouse population , leading to a spate of hunting and killing by a pet cat that normally feeds only at home . |
| 18 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 19 | For a murderer in a hurry , and this murderer had been in a hurry , it would have been a tedious and uncertain way to get a light . |
| 20 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 21 | ‘ My grandmother would have been a hundred and forty this Christmas , ’ Doris began again and then lapsed into silence . |
| 22 | So it should would have been a hundred and forty five . |
| 23 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 24 | However , physically to move the records in line with this boundary reorganisation would have been a formidable and costly task , so enquiries continue to be dealt with under the old district boundaries . |
| 25 | Section 11(1) of the 1977 Act states : 11 – ( 1 ) In relation to a contract term , the requirement of reasonableness for the purposes of this Part of this Act , section 3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 and section 3 of the Misrepresentation Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1967 is that the term shall have been a fair and reasonable one to be included having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made . |