Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given . |
| 2 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 3 | ‘ They will have a point to prove to me that they should have been on the tour . |
| 4 | McKean also got his tactics right on the track , even if later , when he should have been on the victory rostrum , he got ‘ boxed in ’ by some members of the press . |
| 5 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 6 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 7 | You should have been on the plane back from her hol — sorry , charity visit — in Florida last week . |
| 8 | He should have been on the team , even as a second . |
| 9 | He should have been on the end of that . |
| 10 | They should have been at the scene in a quarter of an hour . |
| 11 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 12 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 13 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 14 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 15 | ‘ But if she packed it it should have been with the rest of her things . |
| 16 | He should have been with the girl from the petrol station half an hour ago , but he was too eaten up with jealousy that his dear amigo , Luke , had taken that white-haired she-devil out for a drink . |
| 17 | We should have been over the pass by now and starting to look for the Hacienda Lucinda . |
| 18 | Although the justices were entitled to receive hearsay evidence in support of the application under section 92(2) of the Children Act 1989 , if psychiatric opinions were available , they should have been before the court in full by way of a report and/or direct evidence . |
| 19 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
| 20 | The house , their chamber , the food were arranged to perfection , and after the brutish clangour of Famagusta they should have been in a state of bewildered gratitude . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) The general topics it is proposed to discuss with you are : ( a ) the existence and whereabouts of certain accountancy books and records believed to contain information material to the case ; ( b ) the existence and whereabouts of assets which should have been in the possession of companies under your control and now can not be traced ; ( c ) the extent of your control and interest in various Canadian companies and trusts and the extent and nature of your dealings with these entities ; ( d ) details of personal bank accounts and assets currently held and how current liabilities are being met. |
| 22 | He was actually addressing God when he should have been in the water . |
| 23 | ‘ Mary — you should have been in the government . ’ |
| 24 | Despite the numbers of scientists involved , physical geographers have not perhaps been as prominent as they should have been in the investigation of the human impact upon soil systems . |
| 25 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 26 | Too many Whitehall battles were fought because , for example , tourism had to stay with trade , with the result that a whole series of issues that should have been in the consumer department were not . |
| 27 | Given his military background , such a task should have been in the nature of coals to Newcastle , but in the event he was scrutinising his reflection in the mirror above the fireplace . |
| 28 | Just outside Abermule Station on the 26th January 1921 , this train met another head-on , resulting in the deaths of fourteen passengers including Lord Herbert Vane Tempest and Capt. Harold Owen , both directors of the Cambrian Railway and in whose company Haydn Jones should have been in the tea car that morning , had he not been in bed with a chill ! |
| 29 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 30 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |