Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 2 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 3 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 5 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 6 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 7 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 8 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 10 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 11 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 12 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 13 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 14 | If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge . |
| 15 | He must have been playing the beastly thing for years . |
| 16 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 17 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 18 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 19 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 20 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 21 | Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing : |
| 22 | The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation . |
| 23 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 24 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 25 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 26 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |
| 27 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 28 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 29 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 30 | If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’ |