Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 2 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 3 | me patient should have the right sort of symptoms and should have been subject to some stressful emotional experience before the onset of the illness . |
| 4 | This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) . |
| 5 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 6 | What remains puzzling is why the book should have been notorious at all . |
| 7 | The potential benefits in facilities alone should have been obvious to all , he thinks . |
| 8 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 9 | The scales had fallen from her eyes and she saw all too clearly what perhaps she should have been aware of earlier . |
| 10 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 11 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 12 | Oswiu 's involvement must have been minimal in all of them . |
| 13 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 14 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 15 | The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence . |
| 16 | Brother Joachim , like many of the Franciscans , must have been one of these . |
| 17 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 18 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 19 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 20 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 21 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 22 | Most seem to have developed between 1130 and 1200 , but on some estates the process must have been complete by 1183 when the Bolden Book was compiled . |
| 23 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 24 | Hill must have been typical of many mid-Victorian medics who reorientated their social and political allegiances as a result of a shift in class and professional status . |
| 25 | This was a messianic fervour that must have been similar to that possessed by the ancient zealots who died defending Masada against the Romans 2,000 years ago . |
| 26 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 27 | Once , she supposed , she must have been impressed by formal evening wear on good male bodies , but now it annoyed her . |
| 28 | ‘ He must have been all of 40 , 50 … at least 60 yards out . ’ |
| 29 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 30 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |