Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have been on a real high , but you can never tell with Seve . |
| 2 | I should have been on the following flight to bring you back . |
| 3 | By the way , I am convinced that the black girl who joined us should have been on the cultural induction course next door . |
| 4 | Surely he should have been over the romantic stage by then . |
| 5 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 6 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 7 | But the neighbours want the hole moved to where it should have been in the first place . |
| 8 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 9 | Little John Tomlins should have been in the same room . |
| 10 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 11 | It was even rumoured that Western architects were approached , but that must have been at a subordinate level since early on one clear idea took hold of Ceauşescu 's mind : the whole project , from design through the workforce to the materials used , must come from Romania itself . |
| 12 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 13 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 14 | We all know the facts and figures by now … if you do n't then you must have been on a different planet this weekend … |
| 15 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 16 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 17 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 18 | Effectively this means that the previous dealings must have been on the same terms and a consistent procedure must have been followed . |
| 19 | The wind was blowing free , and if there were any fences they must have been beyond the distant horizon . |
| 20 | Cos the carpet must have been worth a bloody fortune anyway ! |
| 21 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 22 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 23 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 24 | For cover to operate on either Policy Form the vessel must have been within the prescribed cruising range when the casualty occurred . |
| 25 | He was secure enough to mint his own silver pennies , which must have been among the first of the new coins to be produced and an indication of the economic vitality and continuing independence of his kingdom . |
| 26 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 27 | There is one , indeed , in which Grahame must have been among the last to take part : the tradition of the ‘ Kimbly Cake ’ . |
| 28 | It must have been after the last job we did for you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You must have been in a bad way . |
| 30 | This must have been in the two years between the autumn or summer of 1187 , when he left Paris , and September 1189 , by which time he had been created a cardinal deacon by his relative , Pope Clement III . |