Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She argued that the history of " scum " should have alerted the IBA to its controversial nature , and that any decision to screen it should have been made by the appointed members of the Authority , and not by their executive staff . |
| 2 | A great mystery is why Eliot , who was more of a relativist than Pound , should have been accepted by the academic establishment whereas Pound was not . |
| 3 | On behalf of the applicant , Mr. Fitzgerald submitted that a death due to ‘ natural causes ’ in the sense that it was caused by some naturally occurring disease , nevertheless becomes ‘ an unnatural death ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) when it could and should have been prevented by the performance by some other person or authority of a duty owed by them to the deceased . |
| 4 | contractor obtained judgement as defects complained of should have been recognised by the F architect . |
| 5 | It is natural that the third test question of Holy Week should have been asked by the Sadducees . |
| 6 | Playful biting is usual in young puppies , but this trait should have been lost by the time they are about four-and-a-half months old . |
| 7 | Verse 16 : the people 's sin-offering should have been eaten by the priests in the holy place as a sign that God accepted the offering — Aaron 's excuse is not clear , but Moses accepts it . |
| 8 | But whatever the motives , the Government 's twin aims of handing back the control of unions to the individual members , and ensuring that trade unions act within bounds set by a democratic state , are ones that should have been promoted by the left . |
| 9 | The appeal turns on whether evidence obtained by the operation should have been admitted by the trial judge . |
| 10 | Nor is it easy to see on what basis a stricter protection for the wife should have been demanded by the facts in Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones than was demanded by the facts in Howes v. Bishop [ 1909 ] 2 K.B . |
| 11 | It was also one which , in all the circumstances , should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday . |
| 12 | If , however , the growing number of jobs within the service industries is viewed as a consequence of rising productivity levels within manufacturing , then the labour released should have been reabsorbed by the service sector . |
| 13 | The appellant appealed on the ground that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty should have been excluded by the trial judge in the exercise of his discretion under section 78(1) of the 1984 Act . |
| 14 | He had n't yet said who ‘ they ’ were , but Robert had a fairly good idea that some of them might well be unemployed young men pretending to be Muslims in order to worm their way into jobs that should have been occupied by the Faithful . |
| 15 | He confirmed that 150 beds should have been opened by the end of March . |
| 16 | Alan Beith , Treasury spokesman for the Liberal Democrats , said he was perturbed that ‘ so little acceptance should have been shown by the bank of the scale of failing which is brought out in the report ’ . |
| 17 | If Kujau is telling the truth and has found the location , the treasure should have been recovered by the time you read this . |
| 18 | The ratings competition being what it is , Blitz put Morrissey in the cover of the magazine when , of course , it should have been graced by the familiar features of Elsie Tanner . |
| 19 | Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’ |
| 20 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 21 | Similarly , at the other end of the belt , Chalk was later discovered in south-west Ireland ( where it must have been noticed by the early surveyors , but they had evidently been too scared of their autocratic director to record such an unlikely phenomenon ) . |
| 22 | It is obvious that the remaining members of the Commission of Enquiry must have been shaken by the events in God 's Gift . |
| 23 | Edwin must have been struck by the contrast each time he climbed the stairs . |
| 24 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
| 25 | For Order 69 to apply the process must be in connection with ‘ civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal ’ and must have been received by the Senior Master with a written request for service from a consular or other authority in a convention country ( which term includes countries with which the United Kingdom has a relevant bilateral Convention and countries party to the Hague Convention ) or from the Foreign Secretary ( who would have been approached via diplomatic channels by the authorities of another state ) 262 . |
| 26 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |
| 27 | Bourke claimed that Blake brought his two-way radio with him when he escaped and both radios were left at Bourke 's flat in Highlever Road where they must have been found by the police when they raided the flat on I January 1967 . |
| 28 | At recombination these scales were larger than the Hubble radius , and because microphysical processes can act only on scales less than the Hubble radius , these fluctuations must have been produced by the Sachs-Wolfe effect . |
| 29 | Thus , where substantial quantities of the same material equipment or products are discovered , archaeologists tend to assume that they must have been produced by the same people . |
| 30 | They must have been used by the painter of the bull depicted on the flat side of a crystal plaque found at Knossos . |