Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said arrangements should have been made to actually take him to a medical officer and said he should not have been allowed to leave Comber and Newtownabbey RUC stations when he called that day . |
| 2 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |
| 3 | If there is a difference , ordinary managers should have been sacked by now . |
| 4 | All his memoranda had been circulated and should have been digested by now . |
| 5 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 6 | It should have been done at once ; now the moment of surprise is lost . ’ |
| 7 | The exercise must be done and should have been done by now . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 10 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 11 | Should have been gone by now whe great thanks ever so much there you go . |
| 12 | How was it that secondary education for all , the organising impulse behind the 1944 Act , should have been interpreted in so restricted a way ? |
| 13 | We can well understand and sympathise with the judge 's concern that where serious injuries had been inflicted on Mr. Gilbert , who gave credible evidence implicating the appellant , the prosecution case should have been prejudiced by inappropriately calling a witness who should have been tendered to the defence . |
| 14 | The matter could and should have been dealt with as set out above . |
| 15 | Your three separate readings should have been executed at very different speeds , the third reading being the slowest and the second the fastest . |
| 16 | The Brougham milestone dates to AD 258–68 , so that the civitas must have been constituted by then . |
| 17 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
| 18 | Poking his head out from the cab , to get a little cooling draught , he noticed that they were about to enter a long deep cutting and marvelled at the way the cutting must have been cut through almost solid rock . |
| 19 | It was recorded as early as 1749 , by the French astronomer Legentil , though presumably it must have been noticed in more ancient times . |
| 20 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 21 | The man must have been shot from above at close range as he emerged from under the scaffolding . |
| 22 | ‘ You must have been blown in there by the blast of the bomb . |
| 23 | After all , they must have been engaged until relatively recently for Lucy to get her facts mixed up like that … |
| 24 | This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature . |
| 25 | The photograph must have been taken from about twelve feet in front of her , where I surmise Summerchild 's desk was . |
| 26 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 27 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 28 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 29 | South and west of the Canaries , the Atlantic extends emptily for thousands of kilometres , broken only by the Cape Verde Islands ( also volcanic ) and two tiny specks of land , St Peter and St Paul 's Rocks , which are not strictly volcanic , oddly enough , but are composed of material that must have been derived from much deeper levels in the Earth than most volcanic rocks . |
| 30 | ‘ If I know that club , they 'll have been stolen by now . ’ |