Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 2 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 3 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 4 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 5 | For many , this must have been a therapeutic way back into civilian life . |
| 6 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 7 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 8 | This is that the dance might have been the only way , given apine physiology immediately before its evolutionary debut , to solve that problem . |
| 9 | She wished with all her heart that the layout could have been the other way round . |
| 10 | Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position . |
| 11 | That style may have been the only way round a corner in the days of slippy tyres , dodgy suspension and flexible chassis but modern GP machines permit a faster , more aggressive route through the turn . |
| 12 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 13 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 14 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
| 15 | ‘ En souvenir de ’ ( ‘ in memory of ’ ) might seem to imply that Jenny and Mme Vidal were dead , but a collection of jolly harpsichord pieces would have been an odd way to memorialize them . |
| 16 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |