Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget .
2 Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection .
3 Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory .
4 ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago .
5 Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension .
6 I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence .
7 BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations .
8 I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done .
9 the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too …
10 On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’
11 ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply .
12 ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts .
13 But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex .
14 I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea .
15 Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think .
16 Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard .
17 It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so .
18 If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years .
19 On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun :
20 It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp .
21 ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’
22 If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge .
23 He must have been playing the beastly thing for years .
24 Neil Ruddock 's goal midway through the first half lit the fuse … and when Steve McManaman exploded a right footer just before half-time every Town fan must have been fearing the worst
25 He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time .
26 It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) .
27 We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here .
28 But he might have been speaking a foreign language .
29 Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy .
30 Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing :
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