Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 3 | Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 4 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 5 | He must have been playing the beastly thing for years . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation . |
| 10 | One solution could have been to put the smaller plants and animals in boxes or circles around a central illustration of a lake or pond with arrows indicating where they could be found . |
| 11 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 12 | If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’ |
| 13 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 14 | At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time . |
| 15 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 16 | But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding . |
| 17 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |
| 18 | To have been too radical , however , would have been to invite the same fate as the reports of previous committees . |
| 19 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 20 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 21 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 22 | As for the levels of owner occupation , there are 3.5 million more owner-occupiers today than there were in 1979 and no doubt 3.5 million more than there would have been had the right hon. Gentleman been in government . |
| 23 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 24 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 25 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |